Examples of types of Reasoning
Reasoning by Analogy:
A: I didn't want to drink at the party last night, but I did because everyone else was drinking.
B: Well if everyone was going to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge you wouldn't do that, why do you have to drink when everyone else does?
Sign Reasoning:
The clouds to the west looked dark announcing the arrival of an extreme thunderstorm.
Causal Reasoning:
Four students sitting next to each other in a physics class turned in the same answer for the midterm, by bringing each student into his office individually for interviews the professor found out they cheated, because none of them could reproduce their answer verbally.
Reasoning by Criteria:
My mother hates crowded cities, she would never want to visit San Francisco.
Reasoning by Example:
We shouldn't go out this weekend, we went out last weekend and there were way too many people.
Inductive reasoning:
Matt has gone out to dinner with his girlfriend every Friday for the last two months, I'm sure he will be going out to dinner with her again this Friday.
Deductive reasoning:
Matt has gone out to dinner with his girlfriend every Friday for the last two months, but he stayed in his room alone this Friday. I also think I heard him crying while I was watching a movie, his girlfriend must have broken up with him.
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