Deductive and Inductive argumentsOption

Inductive and deductive arguments
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Deductive reasoning
This is the process of reasoning stepwise from one or more premises until a logical conclusion is made from the statements. Inductive reasoning is where premises give support to a conclusion.
Deductive and inductive arguments
It’s clear that if the allies accidentally damage any holy sites when they attack enemy forces, the local people will never give allies any respect or cooperation. The allies, though, will not damage any holy sites. Therefore, the locals will respect the allies and cooperate with them.
Solution
This is inductive reasoning
Premise: If allies accidentally damage any holy sites when they attack enemy forces the local people will never give allies any respect or cooperation
Conclusion: The allies, though, will not damage any holy sites. Therefore, the locals will respect the allies and cooperate with them.
This argument is causal induction because it’s conclusion contains a causal claim. A causal claim is an argument that supports the conclusion (Evans, 1993).
. This is a strong argument since the conclusion is well supported and justified by the causal claim.
All politicians are corrupt manipulators so some manipulators are effective leaders since some effective leaders are politicians.
Solution
This is a deductive argument
Premise 1) All politicians are corrupt manipulators
Premise 2) Some effective leaders are politicians
Conclusion: Some manipulators are effective leaders
Use of Venn diagram to determine it’s validity
Politicians take the variable P
Corrupt manipulators take the variable M
Effective leaders take the variable E
All P are M
Some E is P
So some M is E

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P E

The argument is valid.
83% of the letters to the editor received by this newspaper are adamantly pro-life. And since the daily planet is the only major newspaper in the city, and it provides the primary forum for discussion of a local issue, we must conclude that this town is also overwhelmingly pro-life.
This is an inductive argument
Premise:83% of the letter to the editor received by this newspaper is adamantly pro-life.
Premise: The daily planet is the only major newspaper in the city, and it provides the primary forum for discussion of a local issue.
Conclusion: This town is overwhelmingly pro-life.
This is the enumerative inductive reasoning. This is because the argument makes a conclusion from a group which is a sample of the population. This argument is strong because it uses a big sample to make a conclusion.
Reference
Evans, Jonathan St. BT; Newstead, Stephen E; Byre, Ruth M. J, eds (1993). Human reasoning: The Psychology of Deduction (Reprint ed) Psychology press.p.4 ISBN 9780863773136. Retrieved 2015.