Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TFY Chapter 12 Summary
1. Deductive reasoning is the process of starting with one or more statements called premises and investigating what conclusions necessarily follow from these premises.
2. Deduction is the subject of formal logic, whose main concern is with creating forms that demonstrate reasoning.
3. The standardized language of syllogisms allows a reduction of every day language into verbal equations.
4. Syllogisms allow logicians to determine what is being said, to identify hidden premises, and to find out out if the argument makes senses.
5. Deductive and inductive reasoning are not isolated pursuits but are mentally interwoven both in major and mundane problem solving.
6. It is possible to infer the rules of valid and invalid reasoning from the study of models.
2. Deduction is the subject of formal logic, whose main concern is with creating forms that demonstrate reasoning.
3. The standardized language of syllogisms allows a reduction of every day language into verbal equations.
4. Syllogisms allow logicians to determine what is being said, to identify hidden premises, and to find out out if the argument makes senses.
5. Deductive and inductive reasoning are not isolated pursuits but are mentally interwoven both in major and mundane problem solving.
6. It is possible to infer the rules of valid and invalid reasoning from the study of models.
TFY Chapter 11 Summary
1. Inductive reasoning is the process of thinking that you used in describing a fruit, vegetable, or tool when you began by not knowing the identity of the covered object.
2. The inductive method is also called the empirical or scientific method. It appeared in the reading by Samuel Scudder.
3. Induction reasons from evidence about some members of a class in order to form a conclusion about all members of that class.
4. Induction can be done through sensory observation, enumeration, analogous reasoning, causal reasoning, and from pattern recognition.
5. A conclusion delivered through inductive reasoning is called a hypothesis and is always less certain that the evidence itself.
6. Inductive reasoning is used as a method for obtaining information when is would be impossible to examine all the data available. This is done by taking statistical or by extrapolations.
7. The five basic rules for evaluating the reliability of hypotheses based on the statistical samplings.
2. The inductive method is also called the empirical or scientific method. It appeared in the reading by Samuel Scudder.
3. Induction reasons from evidence about some members of a class in order to form a conclusion about all members of that class.
4. Induction can be done through sensory observation, enumeration, analogous reasoning, causal reasoning, and from pattern recognition.
5. A conclusion delivered through inductive reasoning is called a hypothesis and is always less certain that the evidence itself.
6. Inductive reasoning is used as a method for obtaining information when is would be impossible to examine all the data available. This is done by taking statistical or by extrapolations.
7. The five basic rules for evaluating the reliability of hypotheses based on the statistical samplings.
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