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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I think the examples demonstrate the points better than the definitions, but I’ll inclide the definitions too.
Deductive reasoning uses general observations to come to a specific conclusion.
Example: I take a coin out of my purse. The coin is small, looks like copper, and it has a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on it. Pennies are known to have all of these features. Therefore, I deduce that it is a penny.
Inductive reasoning uses specific observations to make a generalization.
Example: I take a coin out of my purse, and it’s a penny. I take another penny out. Then another penny. Then another penny. I make the generalization from this pattern that all the coins in my purse are pennies.
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