Inductive and Deductive Reasoning Quiz

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What type of reasoning is best expressed through arguments based on experience or observation?

  • Inductive reasoning (correct)
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Analogical reasoning
  • Abductive reasoning

Which type of reasoning usually comes more naturally to us than deductive reasoning?

  • Analogical reasoning
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Abductive reasoning
  • Inductive reasoning (correct)

What does inductive reasoning move from and to?

  • Observations to laws or rules
  • Laws or rules to specific details
  • General principles to specific observations
  • Specific details and observations to general underlying principles or processes (correct)

What is the nature of the premises in an inductive argument?

<p>Believed to support the conclusion but do not ensure it (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How is the conclusion of an induction regarded?

<p>As a hypothesis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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