Almost every website that talks about it says, “Inductive reasoning is a bottom up” approach while “deductive is a top down approach”.
Can anyone explain to me the THE DIFFERENCE? What makes these two forms of reasoning so different? Examples are always appreciated as well.
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In a general sense, deductive reasoning is using all the evidence available to you to draw a conclusion (deducing). Inductive reasoning is making an assumption and then proving if that assumption is true then a more general case is also true. So deductive reasoning is using a large amount of information to prove that a specific thing is true, while inductive reasoning is using a small amount of specific information to prove that a more general thing is true.
In a mathematical sense, deductive reasoning is using pre-established theorems to prove something is true, which is the most direct route to a proof. Inductive reasoning is generally a iterative approach where you show that, assuming null assumption (n0) is true, that if the n+1 is also true, then n+2, n+3….n+k must also be true. So you’re showing that if a specific instance is true, then the generalization is true.
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