NURS 2420U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nursing Theory, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Inductive Reasoning
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Beliefs that lead to questions these questions lead us to come up with ideas of why we believe those things which helps us come up with best practice guidelines for our healthcare. Involves determining components of concepts, inter-relationships of various elements and aspects along with circumstances that make them discernible. Deductive reasoning a reasoning where true premises develop a true and valid conclusion. In the case of deductive reasoning, the conclusion must be true if the premises are also true. Deductive reasoning uses general principles to create a specific conclusion. Deductive reasoning is also known as "top-down reasoning" because it goes from general and works its way down more specific . Inductive reasoning a reasoning where the premises support the conclusion. This means that the conclusion is the part of reasoning that inductive reasoning is trying to prove. Inductive reasoning is also referred to as "cause and effect reasoning" or "bottom-up reasoning" because it seeks to prove a conclusion first.
