EXAMPLES OF DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE REASONING

EXAMPLES OF DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE REASONING

DEDUCTIVE REASONING

Deductive reasoning is also known as top down logic, starts off with general statement. Next step involves reducing it to particular statement, and finally you draw a conclusion

EXAMPLES

• 1.      In commercials people use deductive reasoning to get people buy their product, in Lipton tea add they show that tea is linked with happiness and people who are happy buy Lipton tea. So they link this with fact that if you want to be happy you have to buy Lipton tea
• 2.      In general, There are signs saying ‘don’t use horn’ near hospitals and schools. If there is a sign then it means school or hospital is nearby.
• 3.      Dopamine plays important role in bipolar disorder; if person has disturbed dopamine level then it means he has bipolar.

INDUCTIVE REASONING

Inductive reasoning involve moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories

EXAMPLES

• 1.      Darwin work on theory of survival of fittest. He started observation on giraffes that those giraffes will die who have less excess to resources and later he generalized his work on all populations that whoever has less excess to resources will die.
• 2.      Galileo explained law of freely falling bodies that when feather and ball  will be thrown from height they will hit ground at same time. Later he generalized results of his experiment on all objects i.e. they all will hit ground at same time in spite of different weight and mass as gravity works same on all objects.