Abductive reasoning

Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking is being able to analyze and evaluate what you learn or read using the critical are thinking process. The critical thinking process consists of six steps they are remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The first step is remembering, with remembering you are asking yourself can you recall the key terms. Remembering is pretty low when it comes to the critical thinking process. You would use this level when the…

machining process. In these cases, if critical thinking was not applied to the thoughts of reasoning why this incident occurred, one may assume that it was the technician that is at fault, they must not have made the correct measurements, or pushed the wrong button when setting the machine up. With critical thinking applied to this case, it can add value to finding numerous other causes that could occur for the reasoning of the undersize part. For example, the oil coated on the part causes the…

Many of the experiments that established the foundation of psychology have been found to contain weak inductive inferences that do not represent humanity as a whole. Along with these founding experiments, many recent experiments continue to contain weak inductive inferences as well. This is not an effective way to continue to develop the foundation of psychology. I will argue that the recent experimental work of Audrey Parrish is invalid because of its weak inductive inferences. An inductive…

Hume & Induction On a daily basis, all mankind habitually utilizes a certain principle to obtain answers in their lives. This principle entails reasoning through a collection of several observations. David Hume labels this process as the principle of induction. Although it is used by everyone in the world, Hume questions the validity of it. One can equate Hume’s questioning to a popular saying, if everyone jumped off a cliff would you jump with them? While closely analyzing this subject, he…

1. One overlapping theme I have noticed is that philosophical concepts are almost never have a definition answer to their validity. For example, the theories of mind we encountered were all subject to intense criticism. One theory was not considered “correct” while others were “false.” It seems as if no matter the amount of scientific or numerical data, the answers to philosophical questions will never be answered fully. Going along those lines, I have learned even a satisfactory answer is…

Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgment, associated with the animus” predates humans and exists as the primary guiding force of the universe (Logos). Humans have developed a special relationship with logic through the use of reasoning. This reasoning is distinct in humans where we see that the ideas and principles of logic, A is A, A is not B and A cannot be and not be. Scientists have studied what gives humans this ability to think logically and their conclusions often suggest…

For Hume, the idea of “reason” refers to inductive reasoning, or the ability to make associations between different things, and to recognize cause and effect. He argues that animals learn things two ways: from observation, and from instinct (Hume, pg. 71,72). Both of his ideas are persuasive, especially when looking at the behavior of chimpanzees and their use of tools. However, his argument that animals learn based on experience or observation is slightly more persuasive than his argument that…

arguments, seeing as the first premise, witches are made of wood, has no correlation to the second premise, wood floats. Due to the lack of form we can see that Sir Bedevere lacks the ability to think autonomously, and therefore, does not use good reasoning…

and to back up reasoning, it had as many weaknesses as strengths. It’s why reason as a way of knowing is not reliable as we could think. In this essay, I will to put in evidence the strengths and the weaknesses of reason through deductive and inductive logic, ethic, mathematic, medicine and finally religious aspects. The first strength of reasoning is that it seems to give certainty to what we say. It gives us certainty thanks to a correct logical reasoning. A correct reasoning involves…

that all subjects must have some type of guideline or uniformed code to follow. These guidelines used inductive reasoning to find a solution. Inductive reasoning gathers data first before coming to a conclusion. On the other hand Aristotle’s wanted to use deductive reasoning. Aristotle wanted to take each subject and use a hypothesis and prove the theory. By using deductive reasoning he could use many hypotheses and weed out a conclusion. Once a hypothesis proved wrong, it could be eliminated…