Lesson 02.02

Deduction and Induction,  Answers



 

  1. What is deduction?
    1. Deduction is that formal logic that draws conclusions from premises.  It works from the general to the specific.



       
  2. What is induction?
    1. Induction is that form of logic that draws conclusions that are not necessarily correct.  It works from the specific to the general.




       
  3. With Inductive logic, are all the logical conclusions necessarily correct?
    1. with inductive logic, even though a conclusion is logically possible, it does not mean it is necessarily correct.  For example, just because it has rained every day on a certain day for the past several years, does not mean it will rain on that same day in the future.  The induction (drawing a general conclusion from a specific observation) does not necessarily follow.

 

 


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