The types of reasoning listing in the instructor's blog are Reasoning by Analogy, Sign Reasoning, Causal Reasoning, Reasoning by Criteria, Reasoning by Example, Inductive Reasoning, and Deductive Reasoning. Examples of each reasoning are:
-Reasoning by Analogy: Having everything thing you desire like clothes, money, toys, game, and ect. Does not always make a person happy. By analogy wealth does not make us any happier.
-Sign reasoning: There is bird poop on my windshield; a bird must have flew by my car.
-Casual Reasoning: My legs are extremely sore, it must have been from going to the gym yesterday
-Reasoning by Criteria: Your friend probably is going to need new clothes for that date, so let’s just get her that hot pink skirt.
-Reasoning by Example: You should not straighten your hair so much if you want to grow it out healthy. My mom use to straighten her hair ever day till she stopped and her hair has never looked better.
-Inductive Reasoning: Since Cyndi is an amazing person, her sister must be amazing as well.
Deductive Reasoning: All bachelor’s are single, Matt is single, therefore he is a bachelor.
I really like your examples for each type of the reasoning. Your example for casual reasoning reminded me of one of my friends because she used to straighten or curl hair before and it started to ruin her hair and started to fall off. It really isn't healthy for people's hair to use such material I'm guessing. I'm still confused on how the reasoning by analogy works though because I thought it was a straight forward type of thing like "Golden Retrievers bark, Buddy is a Golden Retriever, so Buddy barks" but then when I saw an example for it, it was totally different. You have to use a similar comparison into an argument just like the example given in the Epstein text.
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