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    the pain caused to factory-farmed animals grossly outweighs any good outcomes. To prove his arguments, he uses his deductive argument called Marginal case in regards to the moral status of non-human animals against the rationality gambit; which attempts to establish the superior ethical status of humans over animals because humans are rational and animals are not. He uses deductive argument in aim of providing the connection between the premises (arguments/theories) and the conclusion. In…

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    Using both questions and reiteration, Stephen Hawking discusses the question of whether humans have free will or not. “Is Everything Determined?” both utilizes logical reasoning and builds upon theories previously stated in order to prove that nothing can be gained in discovering the fate of each individual human being. Hawking’s ethos is built outside the essay by his reputation as one of the world’s leading physicist; his composition originally appeared in the book Black Holes and Baby…

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    According to Grounded Theory, the principle behind grounded theory is “neither inductive nor deductive, but combined to be abductive reasoning”. Moreover the grounded theory approach used in this particular study will be deductive to understand African Americans and Latino male youth perception of law enforcement. This approach is qualitative approach that allows youth the ability to explain the phenomenon of…

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    I chose a Dr. Pepper commercial and it opens with 3 people sitting on a couch and one of them says “I am really craving a Dr. Pepper.” Then a guy named “CraveRider” rides a jet ski into the living room on a wave of Dr. Pepper. There is a song that plays that he always has a Dr. Pepper for when your craving Dr. Pepper, but there are 3 people in the livingroom and he only has 2 cans of Dr. Pepper to give out. When CraveRider is confronted about the conflict he sprays the Dr. Pepper wave at the…

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    in the form of numbers and statistics Written documents from field work, interviews, pictures, observations, objects, etc. Data Analysis Deductive process, statistical procedures Inductive process: codes, themes, patterns to theory Guidelines on the use of both types of research Use Quantitative Research To: Use Qualitative Research To: Recommend a final course of action Develop an initial…

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    that the sky is blue entails that I suppose that this proposition is "true"(Prometheus-journal 2009). Body paragraph The methods wherein we accumulate knowledge, can be differentiated into four broad classes, feel perception, language, emotion and reasoning. The four approaches of figuring out motivate us to determine and differentiate between subjective and objective truths. It 's more often than not assumed language offers us entry to subjective truths at the same time rationale gives us…

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    Shared Knowledge Analysis

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    Knowledge is found in many ways yet it may be broadly classified into ‘Shared Knowledge’ and ‘Personal knowledge’. With reference to ‘Shared Knowledge’, we often mean to say ‘we know’, being objective in nature. The field of education is a shared knowledge system where individuals from different cultural backgrounds are collectively brought and are imparted with ideas based on various areas of knowledge, which contain theories, facts and information. In this era of rapid technological change,…

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    problem about inductive reasoning, which can be seen as an argument that cannot provide a circular justification for inductive reasoning. However, Nelson Goodman’s problem is different, because he is not questioning how we can justify induction, but rather what kinds of inductive practices are valid, and unfortunately, there is no clear answer to this question. In this paper, I will be explaining Goodman’s «New Riddle of Induction» and how we can ‘solve’ it. “As principles of deductive…

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    Deductive analysis, in contrast, follows and is limited to the evidence left at the scene of the crime by the offender. It assumes that the crime scene is a canvas and the criminal is the artist and that his actions are his “artwork” that reflects his internal…

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    That is, they were developed by the process referred to as “induction”. This can be contrasted with a process wherein theories are developed by deductive reasoning, which is based more upon the use of logic rather than observation. Period 2 (1960s and 1970s) While some accounting researchers continued to adopt an inductive approach, a different approach becomes popular in the 1960s and 1970s. This approach…

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