Section 8.6: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Essential Ideas

  • Inductive Reasoning
    Inductive reasoning is reasoning from the particular to the general.

  • Deductive Reasoning
    Deductive reasoning consists of reaching a conclusion by using a formal structure based on a set of undefined terms and on a set of accepted unproved axioms or premises. The conclusions are said to be proved and are called theorems.