Attacking Faulty Reasoning

A Crash Course in Formal Logic This video lecture gives a clear explanation on how to distinguish between deductive and inductive logic. Additionally, it offers information on inferences and inferences claims. Before going into full explanation mode, the video first gives a glance over a few concepts that needs to commit to memory. First and foremost, the video explains that logic is the science of argument evaluation. Also, arguments can either be true or false. At this point of the lecture the…

guarantees the truth of its conclusion (b) False 4. In deductive reasoning is when you provide premises that are presume to be true to get a guarantee truth of the conclusion in order to be valid. A example of the od a deductive agreement is 1. Humans are mortal 2. Carlos is human C. Carlos is mortal This valid since the premises are true and the premises logically follow conclusion, which makes the agreement sound. In an inductive reasoning you are trying to think the most probability…

This essay looks to discuss Hume’s problem of induction. The problem of induction claims that inductive reasoning is unjustified, as we have no reason to think that the past is indicative of the future. This essay begins by outlining Hume’s problem of induction. It then argues that the problem with induction according to Hume is that it does not act like deductive reasoning, but that there is no reason to think that induction has to act like deduction. Hume’s problem of induction proceeds as…

is also important to understand is how she incorporates the ways of knowing into her research. While there are a total of eight ways of knowing, she primarily uses four of them: reasoning, language, intuition, and memory. To illustrate the first way of knowing, reasoning, it is important to know about what kind of reasoning as it is such a broad term. The kind…

and deductive reasoning. It was wonderful to have the video clarifying the differences between the two. I learned more specifics about the value of inductive reasoning. The beginning of chapter four also gave me a great deal of insight into the kinds of inductive reasoning that are applicable in various situations or decisions and how statistics play a part. In reading through the chapter I began to realize that I may have had a more difficult time understanding deductive reasoning because…

The problem of induction is the question if inductive reasoning leads to knowledge understood on the philosophical sense on the lack of justification that, generalizing about properties of similar observations, and assuming a sequence of events will occur in the future the same way as they have done in the past. Hume believes that, “we have no reason to believe the conclusion of any inductive argument.” Inductive means to look for strong evidence to find the truth of a conclusion. In Hume’s…

students every week. These projects will consist of relating class material to the world and will have to follow the format of Deductive Reasoning. This form of reasoning “begins with a proposition called a major premise” which can be a principle or general idea. Then the major premise is followed by a “minor premise which is a fact or observation”. Deductive Reasoning is completed by stating a conclusion after your two premises (2011, pg. 153). A simplified example of this concept is as…

Reading Assignment One Inductive and deductive reasoning are two different processes that are used in order to solve problems. Both inductive and deductive reasoning have different methods of getting to a conclusion however when solving a problem often both processes are incorporated. Two different reading from Christopher Alexander and Ian L Mcharg help show the differences between Inductive and deductive reasoning. Question one Inductive reasoning is solution focused where there are many…

Global Climate Change Argument Fallon Mullen The Global Climate Change argument video that we viewed is highly complex and interesting and highlights the use of logic to decipher a conclusion from an argument that is heated and reoccurring. As I watched the video I felt that the argument fit the form of Modus Tollens and Modus Ponens. Modus Ponens: If we act, then the world won’t end We acted So, the world won’t end. Modus Tollens: If we act, then the world won’t end The world is not going…

This problem of induction is essentially the philosophical question of whether inductive reasoning leads to knowledge. Empiricist scholars base their conclusions on observations and experiences with the natural world, yet this conflicts at times with certain knowledge. The problem of induction questions empirical claims made through this scientific method attacking to assumptions that empiricists rely on. First, is the generalization about the properties of a certain substance…