15 Examples of Reasoning

The reasoning It is the ability of human beings to exercise reason and, therefore, thought. However, in particular this word is used in reference to a way in which that thought is exercised, a way of arriving at certain conclusions. For example:

Cars in England are built to drive on the left.
That car is English.
That car was built left-hand drive.

It happens that, although the mechanisms through which people think and elaborate conclusions are complex, some have been simplified to associate them directly with the language and with the logic. Thus, many scientists were concerned about the validity of the propositions not as for a correspondence empirical with reality but through formal criteria that can show what will be true in all cases, without needing to be observed.

The particular case of reasoning is one that broadly deals with join two given knowledge to arrive at a third party almost as a common sense resolution. The reasoning is supposed to be "unleashed" until the final conclusion made by the speaker is reached.

Types of reasoning

As said, reasoning follows a logical procedure and therefore it does not have to do with individual criteria. It is very common to find erroneous deductive reasoning even in prepared people, such as the usual one that alters the order of deduction: it has the General law that says that all of a group have a characteristic, and when seeing that an individual has that characteristic, he immediately associates him with that characteristic. group.

Examples of reasoning

The following list is made up of examples of reasoning, then indicating if it is one inductive or deductive. The deductive will always be true by definition, while in the inductive it will be clarified whether they are probable or false.

1. Cars in England are built to drive on the left.
   That car is English.
   That car was built left-hand drive. (Deductive)
2. My sister's birthday falls on Monday.
   My birthday falls on Monday.
   All my parents' children's birthdays fall on Monday. (Inductive, probable)
3. All the living beings they need to feed.
   The plants they are living beings.
   Plants need food. (Deductive)
4. The sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
   The legs are 3 and 4 centimeters long.
   The hypotenuse measures 5 centimeters. (Deductive)
5. The capital of Brazil begins with 'B'.
   The capital of Argentina begins with 'B'.
   All the capitals of South America begin with 'B'. (Inductive, false)
6. Every Tuesday I wake up in a bad mood.
   Today is Tuesday.
   Today I wake up in a bad mood. (Deductive)
7. She ate the cake you made and she got sick.
   I ate the cake you made and I got sick.
   The cake made people sick. (Inductive, probable)
8. Every March it rains.
   This month is March.
   This month she will rain. (Deductive)
9. Romina goes to dance every weekend.
   Yesterday was the weekend.
   Romina went dancing. (Deductive)
10. The minister of labor is a man.
    The minister of farming he is a man.
    All the ministers are men. (Inductive, probable)
11. The meat has protein.
    Today we will eat meat.
    I will enrich myself in protein. (Deductive)
12. The movie on TV is of Greek origin.
    The one that happened yesterday was of Greek origin.
    Only movies of Greek origin are showing. (Inductive, probable)
13. All of his books were translated into Spanish.
    Here he says that this book has no translations.
    It can't be yours. (Deductive)
14. This car is imported from China.
    Cars imported from China are very expensive.
    This car is very expensive (Deductive)
15. My stomach hurts.
    I ate food out of state.
    Food caused my stomach ache (Inductive, probable)