The reasoning that was most difficult for me to understand would have to be inductive reasoning. So I did some research online to understand it more and this is what I learned. Inductive reasoning is a more broader generalizations and theories. It is a major kind of reasoning process in which a conclusion is drawn from particular cases. Here is always a possibility that the premises may be true while the conclusion may be false, since there is not a necessarily a logical relationship between premises and conclusion. It is mainly uses when generating hypothesis.
An example would be Look at how those people are behaving. They look angry. This is a huge generalization because they might not be mad but who knows unless you ask. Another good example of inductive reasoning is all swans are white, so the next swan we will see if white. This is an inductive reasoning because not all swans are white, the conclusion is false. This is a general fact.
I liked your post on inductive reasoning. I agree that it wasn’t easy to understand at first either because its definition is sp broad. Inductive reasoning is pretty much reasoning from a specific case. It is used for creating a hypothesis, creating theories, and discovering relationships. There are many different types of inductive reasoning .With inductive reasoning there is a possibility of the conclusion being false, even if the premise is true. An example of inductive reasoning would be, Every time you eat Mexican food, you get sick. Therefore, you get sick because you eat Mexican food. This is reasoning based on detailed facts.
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