TYPES OF REASONING PART 1

CLUE: The arguer leads from one premise to another until reaching a conclusion (claim). (If, Then, So)

Premise 1: All mammals have lungs.

Premise 2: All mammals have lungs.

Conclusion/claim: Therefore, all cats have lungs.

• Abductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• None of these types of reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CLUE: The arguer begins with a specific observation. Then draws a more general conclusion (makes a claim) based on the observation(s).

A teacher gave 25 8th grade students, a test to see if they understood the different types of fallacies and most of the children in the study failed the test. She then determined that most children in grade 8 will fail the next test on types of fallacies.

• Abductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• None of these types of reasoning

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CLUE: Begins with an often incomplete set of data or a specific observation. Then moves to the likeliest possible explanation for that data.

During the first week of December, a doctor diagnosed 50 people with the flu. On December 10th, when a teenage patient complains of sore throat, body aches, vomiting, and has a fever, the doctor diagnoses the patient with the flu before the test results have come back.

• Abductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• None of these types of reasoning

Type "TRUE" or "NOPE" to the question that follows.

The reliability of an inductive conclusion depends on the completeness of the observations.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.7.1