Friday, February 17, 2012

Discussion #1 Inductive Argument

An inductive argument that I have used this past week is when I was away in Louisiana with the basketball team. Our whole team takes up the whole 6th floor of the hotel. Its lights out time, and we are all in our own rooms getting ready to go to sleep, when I hear a shrill voice coming from the hallway. One of my teammates named Marisa is known for having a very clear and defining shrill-like voice. Without thinking I automatically shouted "Marisa keep it down, would ya?" So I automatically figured from my inductive reasoning that Marisa was the voice in the hallway. When breaking down this situation, the premises of this inductive argument is 1. There was a shrill voice be heard from the hallway of the 6th floor where my teammates were housed 2. Marisa, is known for having a very shrill-like voice. The conclusion to this inductive reasoning would be 3. That probably the shrill voice coming from the hallway belonged to my teammate Marisa. This argument is inductive because premise 2 was a generalization about my teammate Marisa, and my conclusion was a claim about a member of the population of what i generalized.

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