Week 8 Post 1: Reasoning Examples

Reasoning by Analogy

            Premise: My mom likes to make pancakes in the morning.

            Premise: My sister likes to make pancakes in the morning too.

            Conclusion: Therefore, everyone likes to make pancakes in the morning.

Sign Reasoning

            Premise: The water in the fish bowl is turning murky and looks dirty.
            Conclusion: It's time to clean the fish bowl. 

Causal Reasoning

            Premise: I missed the bus for school today.

            Premise: Therefore I was late and didn’t have time to eat breakfast.

Reasoning by Criteria

            Premise: Marisa loves purple orchids.

            Conclusion: I think it would be a great idea to get her orchids for her birthday.         

Reasoning by Example

            Premise: Learning how to swim is not as hard as it seems.

            Conclusion: You can look at Kim and learn from the way she does the back float.                

Inductive Reasoning

            Premise: Troy has to drive his daughter Ella to school at 7 o’clock.

            Conclusion: He will also drive his daughter to school tomorrow.

Deductive Reasoning

            Premise: They sell lots of fruits and vegetables at Safeway.

            Premise: Orange is a fruit.

            Conclusion: Oranges are sold at Safeway.