Showing posts with label deductive reasoning. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Conditions for Inductive and Deductive reasoning





Holt Geometry Book
INDUCTIVE REASONING:


For inductive reasoning, you reason that a rule or statement is true based on the truth of specific cases.


DEDUCTIVE REASONING:For deductive reasoning, you use logic to make conclusions. You may use a proof to make these conclusions.

The first example is an example of deductive reasoning.

The second example is an example of inductive reasoning.