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Briefly discuss inductive reasoning.

      

Briefly discuss inductive reasoning.

  

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Martin
Traditionally, said to be reasoning that proceeds from particular, specific cases to general conclusion.
All arguments cannot meet the rigorous standard of inference seen in deductively valid arguments

Thus when an argument is not deductively valid but the premises provide good evidence for the conclusion the argument is said to be inductively strong.
How strong the argument is depends on how much evidential support the premises give for the conclusion.

Therefore in these arguments the link between premises and the conclusion is based on probability. That is;
The pressure give support to the conclusion but do not guarantee the truth of the conclusion.

The premises make the conclusion probable, likely
They are therefore evaluated on the basis of inductive strengths.

The conclusion asserts more than what is contained in the premises.

The conclusion ventures beyond the claims made in the premises since we can envisage a situation where the premises could be true but the conclusion is false.

Hence the is a risk of proceeding from true premises to a false

marto answered the question on April 30, 2019 at 12:01


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