summary for chapter 11, tfy

CHAPTER 11INDUCTIVE REASONING AND INDUCTIVE FALLACIESHOW DO I REASON FROM EVIDENCE?__________________________________________ Induction comes from the latin inducere, to lead in. In logic, induction is to reason to conclusion about all membersof a class on the basis of an examination of a few member of a class.Induction reasons from theparticular to the general. well, Textbook's author describes inductive reasoning as the process of thinking that youused in a describing a fruit, vegetables, or tool in chapter 1 when you began by not knowing the identityof the covered object.We use inductive reasoning to help us out in situations where an examination of all the data would be an impossible or impracticaltask.This chapter discuses numbers of methods that have traditionally been used to learn about thewhole from astudy of its parts.They include sensory observation, enumeration, analogical reasoning, pattern recognitions, casual reasoningand statistical reasoning. Fallacies of inductive reasoning is you will learn a great deal more about howinductive reasoning can go wrong.Following is alist of the fallacies that will be covered in this chapter.they are;Hasty generalization,either or fallacy, questionable statistics,inconsistencies and contradiction, loaded question, false analogy, false cause and slippery slope. By reading this chapter i learned much about inductive reasoning and fallacies of inductive reasoning.Although i use these reasoning in my daily life i have never known that what kind of reasoning is i am using.and also i can teach these induction to my youngers,family etc who are unknown to this and try to reduce applyingfallacies of argument which sounds awkward when we use it.