Deductive Reasoning Case Study

A guidance counselor is faced with a difficult decision regarding a twelfth grade girl’s perilous last-resort choice. The girl is a straight-A’s honor student. However, at the end of the last semester, she had to take care of her sick mother and fell behind in her school work. She missed multiple weeks of school, resulting in her deciding to buy a report online to turn into her AP Psychology teacher. The AP Psychology teacher caught the girl plagiarizing and sent her to the guidance counselor. The guidance counselor has the option to enter that the girl plagiarized onto her transcript and makes her ineligible for her dream college or not to enter that the girl plagiarized and allows the girl to get away with it. The guidance counselor decided …show more content…
If both premises are true, then the conclusion would have to be true, however, if premise two is false that does not affect the validity of the reasoning. The inductive strategy is used when the reasoning does not meet the deductive validity, yet the reasoning still can be used if the premises provide support for the conclusion. If the premises provide strong reasoning, it shows that the conclusion is highly likely to be true given the truth from the …show more content…
Reasoning and conscience are both learned. As people grow and development, physically and mentally, so does the understanding of conscience and reasoning. More importantly, they correlate because when a person uses his or her conscience to determine the morality of a particular situation, the argument of why this particular decision was made by the conscience can also be determined through one’s reasoning. In order to make a decision on whether something a morally just or unjust, one must first understand the ethical dilemma itself, regardless of if it 's one’s conscience and/or