DEDUCTIVE & INDUCTIVE REASONING

DEDUCTIVE & INDUCTIVE REASONING

1. DEDUCTIVE REASONING

   • Creating a specific question about a focused point that is based on a more general or universal principle. For eg: Catholics are presumed to be anti-abortion, when in fact research has shown that the majority of Catholics are actually PRO-Abortion.

2. INDUCTIVE REASONING

   • Arrives at general conclusions from specific observations. It begins with ones observations. For eg: Inductive reasoning leads to the inference that as most of the protesters outside a family planning clinic are Evangelical Christians, you can infer that strongly held religious beliefs are important in determining human behaviour.