Sunday, May 13, 2012

Inductive Reasoning


Throughout this semester I have learned a lot, but if I have to choose one concept that I found to be useful to apply to my daily life would be inductive reasoning. Although there are many different types of inductive reasoning, I think this would be the one chapter I learned most about. The fact that we already consist inductive reasoning in our daily life without us knowing it, is very impressive. Inductive reasoning is generalizing the facts give us an all-purpose idea of particular cases. Many concepts that were covered in the chapter of inductive reasoning were very helpful to understand how generalization, and poll surveys work. Inductive arguments are to be proven to be stronger or weaker whereas deductive arguments are to be only true or false. Deductive arguments are to be more straightforward, but inductive reasoning can be siding with both positions of an argument, debating which to be stronger. I believe this is  very important because it encourages people to be open minded and to elaborate their new ideas on existing ones.

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