Differentiating Reasoning
Differentiating Reasoning
Kayleen Watson
CRT/205
Fredja Trujillo
01 Oct 13
Differentiating Reasoning
The two articles I chose from Week 2 were Article One: Charter Schools Are Superior to Public Schools and Article Four: Social Networking Sites Cannot Be Blamed for Bullying. For this week in article one I believe that the author used inductive reasoning. Inductive Reasoning can be defined as broad generalizations from specific observations. So in inductive reasoning even if the premises appear to be true inductive reasoning allows for the conclusion to be false. In this article the author states “It is often thought that charter schools are an "urban solution" that is most effective and successful in inner cities with high minority and poverty levels, but that …show more content…
Deductive reasoning is the opposite of inductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is a valid form of reasoning. Therefore deductive reasoning starts out with a general statement and examines the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion. So unlike inductive reasoning deductive reasoning both the premises and conclusion are true. I believe in certain aspects of the article there is some deductive reasoning for example the articles says that social networking sites cannot be blamed for bullying because bullying has been going on for decades. The only contribution social networking sites have made to bullying is that it is a more up to date technological way to bully a person versus back in the day when computers were nonexistent. So the deductive reasoning comes in to play because bullying has been around for decades it’s just now bullying has become more advanced due to technology. There is also inductive reasoning in this article because the article states that at Scotch Plains- Fanwood High School in New Jersey the principal believed
Kayleen Watson
CRT/205
Fredja Trujillo
01 Oct 13
Differentiating Reasoning
The two articles I chose from Week 2 were Article One: Charter Schools Are Superior to Public Schools and Article Four: Social Networking Sites Cannot Be Blamed for Bullying. For this week in article one I believe that the author used inductive reasoning. Inductive Reasoning can be defined as broad generalizations from specific observations. So in inductive reasoning even if the premises appear to be true inductive reasoning allows for the conclusion to be false. In this article the author states “It is often thought that charter schools are an "urban solution" that is most effective and successful in inner cities with high minority and poverty levels, but that …show more content…
Deductive reasoning is the opposite of inductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning is a valid form of reasoning. Therefore deductive reasoning starts out with a general statement and examines the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion. So unlike inductive reasoning deductive reasoning both the premises and conclusion are true. I believe in certain aspects of the article there is some deductive reasoning for example the articles says that social networking sites cannot be blamed for bullying because bullying has been going on for decades. The only contribution social networking sites have made to bullying is that it is a more up to date technological way to bully a person versus back in the day when computers were nonexistent. So the deductive reasoning comes in to play because bullying has been around for decades it’s just now bullying has become more advanced due to technology. There is also inductive reasoning in this article because the article states that at Scotch Plains- Fanwood High School in New Jersey the principal believed