Deductive reasoning

This paper is an evaluation of the argument put forth by American lawyer and writer Wendy Kaminer in essay 15 of The Power of Critical Thinking. This argument is titled, Is Sluttishness a Feminist Statement. Overall the argument does not rate very highly. Despite Kaminer’s background in a profession in which the main objective is to win an argument, it seems that in the construction of this argument, proper critical thinking skills were not successfully applied. Without going into too much…

and sexualization hence enabling slavery upon african americans. Mrs. Morgan also claims that racism occurred before slavery did. However, in this article that she writes about this topic we can see that she is practices deductive reasoning rather than practicing inductive reasoning therefore jeopardizing her credibility as a historian. Although Mrs. Morgan implements various primary sources to back up her claim, she fails to do so without committing many fallacies that then make her…

Fundamentally, I already had extensive prior knowledge of arguments and the need to present the best reasoning possible to convince another person that my idea or statement is correct. Having had to deal with legal issues, running my own real estate rental business, as well as being a lower level manager in a parts distribution warehouse, has given me plenty of opportunity to practice arguments, and persuasion. I wish I had attended college before these situations occurred. My biggest…

religion often go hand-in-hand, though they, by definition, should be separate from one another. Comparably, religion and colonialism work in conjunction with each other. By the rules that govern deductive reasoning, that then means that colonialism and secularism also work in tandem. While the reasoning itself is not that simple, it is very true that colonialism and secularism are, fundamentally, two halves of the same coin in the…

While being similar in research regularities the significant difference between the two approaches is that the deductive approach is focused on testing a theory while the inductive approach is focused on the idea of a new theory that comes out of the data that has been input. A deductive research approach starts with a hypothesis and is based on the idea of cause and effect. When looking at the inductive research approach, it starts with several…

planning, higher-level reasoning, and impulse control in adolescents. If we see notable changes in thinking, social behavior, and even risk taking in the teen years, the reason may be, say some researchers, that underlying brain physiology is at least partly…

Killing an Innocent Individual is a Crime Killing an innocent individual is a big crime that is not condoned by any state or any court of the law. Killing is, therefore, a far-reaching crime for an innocent person. This is to mean murder is judged by the courts of law as a crime. The killing act might be acceptable only if done through several rules and demands such as the need for the courts of law (Goel & Dolan, 2004). For instance, a person judged to murder by the tribunal of justice because…

affected the genre. The largest similarity that I have picked up on between Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the way that their characters solve problems through deductive reasoning. But how does this trait fit into the genre and each author’s style of writing? In order to show how Conan Doyle writes in a deductive and critical way here is a quote from “A Scandal in Bohemia”: This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded…

disagree on several of his discourses with Descartes. Using his idea of paradigm, Kuhn helped bring the philosophy of science closer to the history of science. On the other hand, Descartes’ way of knowing is based on experience and influenced by deductive reasoning to lead to the development of ideas. In this connection, Kuhn believed that Descartes caused a paradigm shift in a broad, and historical sense. René Descartes (1596-1650) and Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) both were innovative philosophers…

Meig makes this argument easier to understand not only through the clearly labeled structure, but through his strong, focused deductive argument. He does an excellent job of getting straight to the point and not dancing around the issue so that readers can easily identify his argument. For example, when Meig discusses circular reasoning, he states the conspiracy theorists’ point of how the security footage at the Pentagon, “didn’t show the cruise missile or small aircraft”. Meig…