Question

What is the different between an inductive argument and deductive argument? Give an example.

Answer 1

Inductive reasoning is a method of generalizing a specific result or argument to a large amount of people or things. Most of the time, it will be wrong because people, situations and things vary from one situation to another.

For example, a teacher comes across a group of students who were very cooperative and achieved high grades during her first year of teaching. If she generalizes it to all batches thinking that all the students will be like them which will be a false assumption.

Deductive reasoning is a method where more generalised ideas or statements will be applied to specific group of people or things.

For example, all teachers are honest and Mr. Alo is a teacher, so Mr. Alo is honest.