For journal number four it was an activity, from the Rebecca Jones reading. The activity was to pick a standpoint and then give the deductive reasoning and the inductive reasoning. I first want to start out with the definitions of both deductive and inductive reasoning. Rebecca Jones stated in her article titled “Finding the Good Argument or Why Bother with Logic?” that deductive reasoning is defined as a premise that is a generalization about a large class of ideas, people (etc.) and moves to a specific conclusion about a smaller category of ideas or things. The first premise is the most general and the second premise is a more particular observation. The major premise offers a general belief held by some groups and then the minor premise
