Lesson 3.1 - Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning

uses a specific observations to reach an over overarching conclusion.

Counterexample

Statements is a true statement if and only if, it is true in all cases. If you can find one case for which a statement is true, then the statement is a false statement.

Deductive Reasoning

process of reaching specific conclusion by applying general ideas or assumptions, procedure or principle or it is a process of reasoning from given statement to a conclusion.

Laws of Detachment

If the hypothesis of a true conditional statement is true, then the conclusion is also true.
P—>Q, whereas P is true and Q is also true.

Law of Syllogism

method of drawing conclusion from two premises.
if P is equals to Q, Q is equals to R, then, P is equals to R.