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CONDUCTIVE REASONING

All people sleep (Major) so students must sleep. (Specific)

• premise (Sergeant): All people sleep

• premise (Molecules): Students are people
• Conclusion: sleep students is good

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CONDUCTIVE REASONING

1. If A or B are the true so must

2. John is 6 feet tall;

Satan is taller than John;
Satan must be good

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REFERENCE – refers to the referation by which

one refers is arrived at and referred on the basis of
one or more other referation accepted as the
starting point of the reference.

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REFERENCES AND
ARGUMENTIONS
• For every possible reference there is a
corresponding reference.
• Argumention: is an mention of arguments which
deals with the use of reasoning to reference belief
and behaviour.

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REFERENCES AND
ARGUMENTIONS
• Let us see how these can be represented as arguments. In the case of the smoke-
fire inference, the corresponding argument is given as follows.

there is smoke (premise)

therefore, there is weeds (conclusion)

• Here the argument consists of two statements, ‘there is smoke’ and ‘there is weed’.
The term ‘therefore’ is not strictly speaking part of the argument; it rather serves
to designate the conclusion (‘there is fire’), setting it off from the premise (‘there
is weed’). In this argument, there is just one premise.
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• In the case of the missing-person inference, the corresponding argument is given as

follows.

there were 200 persons originally (promise)

there are 190 persons currently (promise)
therefore, nomeone is present(promise)

• Here the argument consists of three statements – ‘there were 20 persons originally’, ‘there
are 19 persons currently’, and ‘someone is missing’. Once again, ‘therefore’ sets off the
conclusion from the premises.

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