THE TYPES OF ARGUMENTS Normally we classify all arguments into one of two types: deductive and inductive. Deductive arguments are those meant to work because of their pattern alone‚ so that if the premises are true the conclusion could not be false. All other arguments are considered to be inductive (or just non-deductive)‚ and these are meant to work because of the actual information in the premises so that if the premises are true the conclusion is not likely to be false. The difference is
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knowing will impact the research and how knowing can be and asset for the employee and the organization. Some important research terminologies are quantitative‚ qualitative‚ dependent variables‚ independent variables‚ inductive reasoning‚ deductive reasoning‚ scientific research‚ premises‚ and probability. Researcher must understand the meaning of these words to conduct a proper scientific research. For example: pure research is when conducting research for knowledge that may contribute
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result of the combination of inductive as well as deductive methods of acquiring knowledge (Kokul‚ 1994). Inductive reasoning is one of the important methods of acquiring knowledge‚ in which a conclusion is reached by observing instances and generalizing from instances to the whole phenomenon. The following figure-1 shows the inductive reasoning. Figure-1: Inductive reasoning Acc 3231 Research Methodology in Accounting Page 1 On the other hand‚ in deductive reasoning the
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Criminal Profiling Week 1 Discussion questions 1. Analyze inductive/deductive reasoning. Inductive criminal investigative assessments: The inductive approach to profiling is a based on the simple premise that "If certain crimes committed by different people are similar‚ then the offenders must also share some type of personality traits. (Holmes & Holmes‚ 2009)" Inductive reasoning seems to be the more "scientific" of the two as it is strictly based on criminals that have committed the
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What is the difference between hypothesis and law? A hypothesis is a statement‚ put forth on the basis of reasoning‚ about the things that are being studied. A hypothesis is an educated guess based on past scientific studies and previous experiments. It is not just a random guess. Observation is followed by a hypothesis. For example ‘Plants need sunlight to grow’ can be a hypothesis. It is formulated by taking into account all the observations that are know about the phenomenon under investigation
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them to a conscious state in order for a person to be more open-minded to other possibilities. For example‚ consider the reasoning between two people when presented with the same information. In the first example‚ a person sees a man lying in the gutter (situation). The person decides the man is a bum (conclusion) because all bums lie in gutters (assumption). However‚ the reasoning from a different person presented with the same situation might conclude the man is in need of help because anyone lying
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Karl Popper also argued that inductive reasoning leads to more inductive reasoning‚ leading to a circular argument. The problem of induction is that induction is creating the problem and “begging the question.” In order to avoid begging the question when using inductive reasoning‚ you might introduce a new inductive principle. By introducing a new inductive principle‚ you would have to make justification based on experience‚ leading to even more inductive reasoning. Hume argues that we need to justify
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[pic] PCR0025 Critical Thinking All Foundation ONLINE NOTES Topic 3: Argumentation • Argument is a claim put forward and defended with reasons. • Arguments are composed of: 1. Premises 2. Conclusion • Statement: A sentence that can sensibly be regarded as either true or false. • 2 things about statements: 1. A sentence may be used to express more than one statement. 2. Not all sentences are statements
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conclusion (Inductive & Deductive). For instance‚ a researcher starts with a theory of a topic of their interests. They will then narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that can be tested. The hypotheses are then narrowed down even further when observations are collected to test the hypotheses. This ultimately leads the researcher to be able to test the hypotheses with specific data‚ leading to a confirmation (or not) of the original theory and arriving at a conclusion (Deductive versus
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Argument Deductive and inductive reasoning is an interesting topic that is widely available on internet. Deductive arguments are arguments by the arguer to be valid and logical that is they have to provide justification‚ guarantee and proof for the derived conclusion. The premises that are presented by arguer should be strong and powerful enough to use it as a proof; it must guarantee conclusions. If a valid argument has true conclusions‚ then the argument is said to be sound whereas inductive arguments
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