Chapter 1 THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF REASONING ARGUMENTS Reasoning is the activity of making inferences. This is when you attempt to justify or prove one statement by appealing to another statement/s. To prove or justify a statement means to give a good reason for believing it.1 The statement that you are trying to justify is called the conclusion whereas the justifying statements are called premises. All reasoning has a conclusion (implied or explicit) and at least one (and typically more than one)
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TITLE The Effects of Mind Puzzle Games to Nonverbal Reasoning Ability among College Students. HYPOTHESIS Mind puzzle games has no significant effect to nonverbal reasoning ability of college students. CONTROL VARIABLE: Educational Attainment RANDOM VARIABLE: Gender and Age INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: Mind Puzzle Games DEPENDENT VARIABLE: Nonverbal Reasoning Ability BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC Nonverbal tasks involve skills such as: ability to recognize visual sequences
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Analogical reasoning or “reasoning that depends on a comparison of instances” may very well be the most prevalent of all rational processes (Hurley 524). When such reasoning is expressed in words‚ an argument from analogy results. Arguments from analogy play an essential role to many of life’s everyday decisions. This includes the trivial to the more significant matters. The distinct form and principles of arguments from analogy are used in legal systems as well in deciding moral questions. Argument
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The conflicting interaction of belief-bias and logicality in syllogistic reasoning tasks Abstract The study conducted replicated Evans (1983) experiment to investigate the presence of believe-bias in syllogistic reasoning tasks‚ using an equal number of male and female participants to avoid gender differences in the results. The findings showed there was an interaction between believability and logicality‚ suggesting that dual-processing theories influenced the results
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David Hume’s "The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning" states his beliefs about knowledge and his idea that we can only have relative certainty of truth. Skeptics concur that there is not enough evidence to predict the future or prove truth. In "An Argument Against Skepticism‚" John Hospers argues that we can have absolute certainty because there is enough evidence from the past and from our own experiences to prove an argument to be true. Although both Hume and Hospers make
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Inductive and Deductive Reasoning A valid argument is made to address a specific problem by offering a position and proving reasons to support that position. A valid argument is based on two key components‚ one or more premise and conclusion. A premise is fact and/or opinion and must be proven to be true or false. And a conclusion is the final statement of the position one is taking on an issue or question. In deductive reasoning‚ if the fact is true the conclusion must be true because the conclusion
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Compare and Contrast the Inductive and Deductive Research Paradigm/Approaches When underlying assumptions and intellectual structure are built upon research‚ observation‚ or development in a field of inquiry a paradigm is created. The way we perceive the world around us or the way facts and theories are established are generated in different ways. Knowledge is constantly being produced‚ based on assumptions or reasoning. One might see a story in the news of a shark in Southern California that attacks
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INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING 25-Mar-13 Ghufran Ul Haque 12 Angry Men Inductive and Deductive reasoning with short explanation * Inductive Reasoning: 1. The boy had a motive for the killing‚ you know‚ the beating ad all. So if he didn’t do it then who did? Who else had the motive? Explanation: This is inductive reasoning‚ in this phrase the 6th juror talk straight to the 8th juror who is in favor of the guilty boy. So
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Chapter Eight – Inductive Reasoning An inductive argument is intended to provide only probable support for its conclusion‚ being considered strong if it succeeds in providing such support and weak if it does not. Inductive arguments come in several forms‚ including enumerative‚ statistical‚ analogical‚ and causal. In enumerative induction‚ we argue from premises about some members of a group to a generalization about the entire group. The entire group is called the target group; the observed
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Question : In logic‚ arguments are never described as Student Answer: true. valid. inductive. sound. Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in Chapter Three of An Introduction to Logic. Points Received: 0 of 1 Comments: Question 2. Question : Human reasoning tends to use a mixture of both Student Answer: oil and vinegar. induction and deduction. induction and reduction. reduction and deduction. Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in
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