Question

All fruits have seeds.
No vegetables have seeds.
Therefore, botanically speaking, tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and zucchini are technically fruit not vegetables.
Is this inductive or deductive reasoning?

Answer 1

You're missing a line that says "tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and zucchini have seeds"

if you had that line, then you would be using deductive reasoning

Answer 2

deductive reasoning is starting with known true statements and building arguments and other facts from that

Answer 3

inductive reasoning is using known facts to try to generalize some relationship that applies universally

Answer 4

ex of inductive reasoning

I pick up a rock and I test its hardness. I find the first rock is hard. I do the same for a second rock, and it's also hard. The same can be said about a third rock. So by inductive reasoning, EVERY rock is hard.

Answer 5

So you can see there's a bit of a flaw with this reasoning

Answer 6

Sorry that, must have been cut off when I copied it from my other page. Would it be deductive then?

Answer 7

yes it would be

Answer 8

Thank you very much!

Answer 9

you're welcome