Lindsey Lane October 21‚ 2012 The Importance of Deductive Reasoning Critical Thinking Kevin White It is important to understand what is known prior to making a decision because the decision could be either wrong or right. Making decisions at times can be a hard thing to do. There are many pros and cons for decision making. In argument five To Cheat or Not to Cheat Jenna has a big decision to make. She has to decide whether or not she wants to continue her class by being honest or to
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the basis of enumerative inductive arguments‚ and must be judged by the same general criteria used to judge any other enumerative induction. Statistical syllogisms begin with a statistical generalization about some group or category and reaches a conclusion about some specific member of that group or category. We evaluate a statistical syllogism by examining: (1) whether the statistical generalization it begins with is well-founded‚ (2) the strength of the statistical claim (is it a near-universal
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The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which a story is presented by a narrator with an overarching point of view‚ seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story‚ including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.[1] It is the most common narrative mode found in sprawling‚ epic stories such as George Eliot’s Middlemarch. The godlike all-knowing perspective of the third-person omniscient allows the narrator to tell the reader things that none of
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Analysis of Confined Love by John Donne Confine Love is a poem inspired by Ovid’s work. It is a logical game in which the speaker tries to convince a woman‚ probably his mistress‚ that promiscuity is justifiable. This poem looks like a syllogism‚ beginning with men to go towards animals and then free love‚ the very aim of the poem. In the first stanza‚ the speaker addresses a married woman and tries to convert her to promiscuity. The “old or new love” are respectively the wife and the mistress
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deductive or inductive if it looks so. 2) Note the indicator words Test for consistency: would you judge someone or something you dislike the same way you would judge someone/thing you like? Argument patterns Pattern – content Variables Syllogisms=deductive argument made of three statements Two premises (may have more)and one conclusion(always) Conditional=if then structure Antecedent =the statement that follows if Consequent =statement that follows then Modus ponens=affirming the antecedentPhilosophy
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Cognitive development can be defined as the growth of our knowledge in understanding the world around us. This growth can be developed gradually‚ in other words‚ it is seen as a continuous process by collecting more information. Another way of developing cognitively is through a series of stages which involves some sort of revolution from one period to another in one’s lifetime. Jean Piaget‚ a cognitive developmentalist believed that humans go through a series of stages in life in order to reach
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at a month’s worth of sales receipts‚ you could determine that Saturday afternoons are when most patrons prefer to shop in your store. Deductive reasoning “moves from a general statement to a specific conclusion” and works from the model of a “syllogism‚ a three-part argument that consists of a major premise‚ a minor premise‚ and a conclusion” (Rosa & Eschholz‚ 2012‚ p. 540). Please note that in order to accept your conclusion/argument‚ your audience should accept the major and minor premises
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They insist that Ethan deserves his fate because of the opposing syllogism‚ stating that one deserves his fate when he chooses impulses rather than morals. Ethan chooses to follow his impulses rather than his morals. As a result‚ Ethan deserves his fate. One believer of the opposing syllogism‚ fellow CHS student Matthew Weder‚ argues that Ethan deserves his fate because of his apparent fear for Zeena. He relates Ethan’s case of
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Fallacies are all around us. Every time we turn on a TV‚ or a radio‚ or pick up a newspaper‚ we see or hear fallacies. According to Dictionary.com‚ a fallacy is defined as a false notion‚ a statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference‚ incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness‚ or the quality of being deceptive (www.Dictionary.com). Fallacies are part of everyday and become a staple in certain aspects of life. Political campaigns and reporters would be lost without the
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Deductive reasoning Deductive reasoning happens when a researcher works from the more general information to the more specific. Sometimes this is called the “top-down” approach because the researcher starts at the top with a very broad spectrum of information and they work their way down to a specific conclusion. For instance‚ a researcher might begin with a theory about his or her topic of interest. From there‚ he or she would narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that can be tested. The
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