PSCI 2701 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Validity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2701
• Professor: Vadnabhatia

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Following are the seven universal standards: clarity this is a fundamental requirement of any writing. An unclear statement leads to confusion, misinterpretation, and inevitably frustration: accuracy you may be clear, but the argument is fault if it is not accurate. An argument is by nature deductice if we are being asked to believe that the conclusion is true because the premises are true. If the argument is not deductively valid and the writer is using terms such as (cid:862)likel(cid:455),(cid:863) (cid:862)possi(cid:271)le,(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)le,(cid:863) i(cid:374) relatio(cid:374) to the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374), the argument is inductive. Assume that an argument is either deductive or inductive on the basis its form. (if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck. ) (102: step 3 examine the structure. For deductive arguments, if the argument is valid, check for soundness or the truthfulness of the premises.