The Reasoning Process and Inductive Reasoning By Ryanne Gorsuch By Ryanne Gorsuch

The Reasoning Process  Proving claims requires logic, but often the speaker doesn’t explain the reasoning because its obvious to the audience.  You need to use reasoning to link the support to the claim.

Example of Reasoning  If you are arguing that people should take vitamins and then provide examples and statistics showing that people who take vitamins are healthier then people who don’t then, then it is not necessary to provide the reasoning. (you should want to stay healthy) People will supply the reasoning from their own beliefs.

Types of Reasoning  Inductive Reasoning  Deductive Reasoning  Sign  Casual Relationship  Analogy

Inductive Reasoning  Draws conclusions by  Examining specific instances or examples.  Developing either a general rule or a specific rule.  Inductive reasoning is useful when you want to make claims that predict future events based on past occurrences.

Inductive Reasoning (cont.)  Inductive reasoning draws conclusions or makes generalizations based on several examples or situations  Inductive reasoning must be based on more then one example or situation.  Inductive reasoning goes from the specific to the general.

Example All of the crows that I have observed are black, therefore all crows are black.

Questions  Why do speakers not always explain their reasoning?  How many different types of reasoning are there?  Inductive reasoning goes from what to what?

Answers  Because it is often obvious and the audience can understand it by themselves.  Five  From specific to general