Question

You eat an apple and get cramps. You eat a pear and get cramps. You eat a cherry and get cramps. You conclude that eating fruit gives you cramps. This is an example of what type of reasoning?

a. Deductive reasoning

b. Reciprocal reasoning

c. Inductive reasoning

d. Linear reasoning

Please explain the reason why you chose your answer. Thank you.

Answer 1

The Answer is Inductive Reasoning

when one's observations or experiences are used come up with a general truth or conclusions is known as Inducitve Reasoning, it involves prediction of future results on the basis of past observations. In the current example the eating of fruits giving cramps is a past observation or experience due to which we are forced to form an conclusion that eating every type of fruit gives cramps.

while linear reasoning is which involves cycles or step to step processfor the development of response or conclusion,

in deductive reasoning scientific methods are used to test theories and forming a conclusion for the same