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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Basically, there are 3 types of logical reasoning: deductive, inductive and abductive. The difference lie in what you already know, and what you are trying to know.
So there’s an action, a rule, and a result. For example: a horse passes in my hallway (action), a horse’s feet make clopping noise (rule), I hear clopping (result)
Deductive is having the action and the rule and you are deducting the result. I know a horse’s feet make clopping sounds, so if a horse walks in my hallway, I deduce I will hear clopping
Inductive is having the action and the result, and interpreting the rule. I am hearing clopping and a horse is walking my hallway, therefore a walking horse makes clopping noise
Abductive is having the rule and result, and using it to guess the action. I hear clopping, I know horses make clopping sounds when walking: therefore a horse is in my hallway.
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