Understanding Deductive and Inductive Arguments: An Analysis, Lecture notes of Management Accounting

Download Understanding Deductive and Inductive Arguments: An Analysis and more Lecture notes Management Accounting in PDF only on Docsity!  Find and post examples of deductive and inductive arguments.  For each example, evaluate its logical strength, using the concepts and ideas presented in the textbook readings, the lesson, and any other source you find that helps you to evaluate the validity (deductive) or strength (inductive) of the argument. You can use examples from the text, or you can find examples elsewhere. o Editorials and opinion columns are a good source, as are letters to the editor. Blogs will also often be based on arguments. o Use mapping and evaluative techniques to make sure it is an argument.  Is it inductive or deductive? Explain why.  Does it pass the tests of validity and strength? Explain. In my effort to help clarify the differences between inductive and deductive arguments, I found another established source of information on the topic. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020) gave several argument examples and then explained the differences in their reasons, making them deductive or inductive. Attempting to keep this assignment simple while I continue to navigate the ideas, I’ve chosen a statement from our text, “I’m not an alcoholic. First of all, I only drink beer. And, second, I’ve never been drunk in my life.” (Gittens & Facione, 2015, p. 143). The premises of this argument are that he only drinks beer, which we can infer to mean that alcoholics do not drink beer, and that he has never been drunk, meaning that to be an alcoholic one must be drunk. Keeping just to the test of logical strength, it is faulty. There are several scenarios in which an alcoholic indeed drinks beer, and scenarios is which a habitual drinker is not always drunk. This is an example of an inductive argument – the man is giving what he sees to be truthful reasons to prove his conclusion is most likely true. Neither of his reasons follows fact, therefore it is not a deductive argument. To be deductive, “If the arguer believes that the truth of the premises definitely establishes the truth of the conclusion, then the argument is deductive.” (Feiser & Dowden, 2020). An example of this would be an article I found in relation to holiday travel this year with Covid-19 cases surging across the country. I believe this article holds both inductive and deductive arguments while arguing reasons to simply stay home. With the conclusion of the article being one should stay home at all costs, one