PHIL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Abductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, G2 Phase

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2240
• Professor: Dr. Freedman

Document Summary

Inductive reasoning : this is how we reason everyday and also in science. A deductive argument is one in which if the premises are true the conclusion is necessarily true. As a kind of inference it is a lock down method of reasoning. We can never be so tight about our inferences in life. We rely on sample sizes, (abductive reasoning, were not going to talk about it. Certain regularities that we observed are in fact regularities. For example: every observed emu has been flightless. Let"s say i want to make a broad claim like everyone who goes to the beachwear"s flip flops. You take a sample: it"s a small sample it can"t be for everyone. Even if you saw everyone at the beach on one particular day, let"s suppose you saw everyone, what about water boil"s at 100 degrees c you test it 10 times in 10 different countries.