Malik Saad Ahsan

FA19-BBA-016

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Limitations of Deductive Reasoning:

Example:

A: If a person has a Y chromosome then the person is a male.

B: Val has a Y chromosome.

Conclusion: Val is a male.

The laws of deductive reasoning state that if A is true and B is true, then the conclusion must
be true.

• A limitation of deductive reasoning is that the conclusion doesn’t apply if A is not

true.

• There are other rules of deductive reasoning that help us draw conclusions from
statements that are assumed to be true. But there’s that limitation again: those initial
statements have to be true. Ultimately, everything derives from some initial
statements that we have to assume are true.

• Deductive reasoning is not a Self-Sufficient method.

• Consistency problem.