PHIL 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, If And Only If

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2020
• Professor: Sean Meslar

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Deductive arguments: a deductive argument is an argument that uses deduction to get its premises from its conclusion, a reliable way to identify deductive arguments is to identify the modality of the conclusion. If the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. We can tell from the modality of the conclusion. Deduction in practice: because of the strong modality of the conclusion, and the close relation between conclusion and premises, pure deduction is, practically speaking, quite rare. Inductive inferences are often left unstated: the argument uses induction to reach a general rule (the coin will come up heads every time), but inference is left unstated. Unit 1: lecture 2: argument that uses induction to derive its conclusion from its premises, the best way to identify inductive arguments is to examine the relation of content between the p(cid:396)e(cid:373)ises a(cid:374)d the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374). Identifying inductive arguments: first, one should remember that an inductive argument will conclude in a general rule.