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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At the end of every Sherlock Holmes book, Sherlock tells a funny joke that no one understands.
He tells Watson that he used deductive logic. That’s the joke, but no one gets it. Instead I had teachers telling me that Sherlock was an example of deductive logic. Yikes.
Sherlock doesn’t use deductive logic because any idiot can do that. It is basically figuring out what must have come next. For example, if a dog is hungry then it will eat food.
What Sherlock does instead is look at the final picture and figure out how it happened without knowing what went first. He looks at a million options of how it could have gone down and his mind is able to figure out the pathway it took to get there. It’s partly logic but partly intuition. You feel the answer and then you check to see if it makes sense. Like when kids since math problems with the Guess and Check method.
Hope this helps
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