PSYO 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Propositional Calculus, National Order Of Quebec, Confirmation Bias
8 Dec 2015
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*take a philosophy course in reasoning and logic* Thinking is going beyond the information given, the fafct htat we have certain information were given and were able to go beyond that based on our knowledge and intetntion on the topic. Makes use of everything weve talked about, Inductive reasoning: occurs when we oberve specicifc insyances and draw a general conclusions. We see this represented as a trainale, wehere we go from specific information to general information. Decutive reasoning: going from general theoryries belefs and predicting specific instances. When you run an experiment thats often what you trying to do, you syaty with a theory, or a general rule of how the world should work. Decision making: when we are faced with unsertainity. We don"t know what all of our outcomes are, so we make a. When we reason from known instance to other unknown instances.
