Question for readers. Please read the following definitions:
Induction: The process of deriving general principles from particular facts or instances.
Deduction: The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.
Now, please answer these poll questions:
| Which definition did you know? | |
| I knew the definition for both | |
| I knew the definition for induction | |
| I knew the definition for deduction | |
| I didn’t know the definition for either | |
| Free polls from Pollhost.com | |
Results so far: 81, 1, 8, 3….
I want to blog on the topic of deduction & inductive reasoning in our culture today in the near future, but am curious to get some data samples from GNXP readers to test a few hypotheses that are floating in my head….
Posted by razib at 11:12 PM