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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what does inductive and deductive conclusions mean in math?????

myininaya (myininaya):

it is how you reasoned inductive conclusions are from inductive reasoning deductive conclusions are from deductive reasoning

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok

OpenStudy (anonymous):

lol

OpenStudy (anonymous):

dont think that was much help

myininaya (myininaya):

lol

OpenStudy (anonymous):

All I did was wiki it for you. Inductive reasoning is working up from a fact to say that a more general version of that fact is also true. A common example is experimentally determining a physical phenomenon and then generalizing it to say that the same holds true everywhere, not just in the lab where it was measured. Deductive reasoning is kind of the opposite; you apply knowledge of a general phenomenon to a specific instance of it to make a conclusion about that specific instance. Wikipedia's example of deductive reasoning is this: "All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal" Deductive reasoning is logically sound, but inductive reasoning is less so, as sometimes what is observed in a specific instance is not generalizable past a certain point.

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