1. What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?

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A few days ago

Lisa B

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In deductive reasoning, you start out with known and proven facts, and deduce (figure out) what they mean. For example, if you know that all people both of whose parents have the gene for a particular disease get the disease, you can deduce how the disease is transmitted.

Inductive reasoning tries to figure out the answer before you have all the facts, or where you simply cannot get all the facts. Figuring out that the earth must be round rather than flat would have been inductive reasoning during the Renaissance. Theories about what is causing climate change today use inductive reasoning, because we simply do not have enough facts to know what causes other than human-caused change are at work.

A few days ago

Anonymous

DEductive reasoning involves analyzing the EFFECTS of a situation. (Deduce – effect.)

INductive reasoning requires a much deeper knowledge of *WHAT-IF* something happens to cause an effect. (Induce – cause.)

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1. What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?

1. What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?

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