Reason by analogy: comparison becomes this when it’s part of an argument. One side of the comparison we draw a conclusion, and the other side should conclude the same.
- The arts decrease the chances of kids dropping out of high school. Therefore, the arts should be implemented in high schools and not dropped.
Sign Reasoning: two things are closely related to each other, the presence or absence of one means the presence/absence of the other
- Where there’s facebook, there’s status updates. (c’mon, we’ve ALL updated our status at least once on that darn site.)
Causal Reasoning: we have good reason to believe that events of one sort are systematically related to events of some other sort.
- I procrastinate studying for an exam. I take the exam, and find the questions to be extremely difficult. I get the results back and get a bad grade.
Reasoning by criteria: define criteria on what is being judged, then identifying the best decision out of the bunch.
- Playing Angry Birds on your phone all day will make you extremely distracted. Delete that app and you’ll be less distracted.
Reasoning by example: use of examples in an argument
- "You wanna be a starship ranger? Discover worlds far and near? Who gives a care about starship rangers! The greatest life to live is found right here!" -"I Wanna Be (A Starship Ranger)" by Darren Criss
(These are song lyrics, by the way. The lyrics are basically a metaphor for asking why should you go out and be something that is out of the ordinary when you can live your life just fine being ordinary? Lovely song, by the way. Check it out if you're interested.)
Inductive: using other observations that were made previously to reason.
- Steppie’s Etsy shop always delivers their products quickly. I bought from them before, so buying from them again, I’ll get the same result.
Deductive: conclusion of an argument has to be true if the premises are true
- All pop songs have the same 4 chords: C, G, Am, F. “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” by Katy Perry is considered a pop song. Therefore, this song must have those chords in it.
(Yeah, this song DOES have these chords. Pretty fun song to play on the guitar and sing.)
Hey Chynna! Your post about reasoning was very organized and helpful! It was very easy to read making it easy to understand. I liked how you not only gave examples for each type of reasoning but also gave definitions of each type of reasoning as well. All of your examples were easily relatable and entertaining as well. I especially liked the song lyrics that you used for an example, it was very creative. I think that sign reasoning was one of the hardest types of reasoning for me to create an example for. I think that your example about Facebook was also creative for sign reasoning. You’re doing a great job with your posts! Keep up the good work! :)
ReplyDeleteHiiii cvgotsoul! Like always, I love how you organize and set up your blogs. Believe it or not, the spacing and bolding makes your post so much easier to read and understand. I really like how you first defined the different types of reasoning and next provided great and easy-to-relate to examples. Your example for deductive reasoning allowed me to learn something more than just different types of reasoning, so that's a big plus! And yes, where there's Facebook, there's status updates, no doubt. :) Also, I learned some lyrics! Basically, I learned so much more than I needed to in this post! :) Overall, awesome post and keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteHello. I really enjoyed reading your post. Your post about reasoning was very organized, helpful and easy to understand. I like how all of your examples were very related to me, entertaining, and it also gave an easy definition of each type of reasoning.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your example about Angry Birds because that is such an easy way to understand the true definition of reasoning with criteria and the example it completely relatable. I have actually experienced this, but with a different application.
Keep up the good work, i really enjoy reading your posts.
I liked reading your post because it was very clear and helpful. The variety of examples were relatable and very entertaining as well. I really liked your example of reasoning by criteria. The example about how angry birds is extremely distracting and should be deleted to decrease distraction was very relatable to me and I’m sure to many other college students as well. Many games on my iPhone distract me from more important things and that is definitely a good reason to delete them. It was a good example to describe reasoning by criteria and clearly displayed how criteria leads to a conclusion.
ReplyDeleteI would just like to start off by saying I absolutely loved your examples. I really enjoyed reading this cause I literally Laughed Out Loud! I love the facebook status example. Where there is facebook, there are DEFINITELY people updating statuses. There are like 5 new status updates every minute! Perfect example of sign reasoning since facebook is pretty much the largest social network. Also, your casual reasoning example was perfect. I'm sure every college student can relate to procrastinating an exam. I know I have definitely procrastinated studying before. Your examples really relate to a college student's real life and that is why I absolutely loved this post! Keep up the great work!
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