But if you wish also to see a State at fever-heat, I have no objection. For I suspect that many will not be satisfied with the s
impler way of life. They will be for adding sofas, and tables, and other furniture; also dainties, and perfumes, and incense, and courtesans, and cakes, all these not of one sort only, but in every variety; we must go beyond the necessaries of which I was at first speaking, such as houses, and clothes, and shoes: the arts of the painter and the embroiderer will have to be set in motion, and gold and ivory and all sorts of materials must be procured.
–The Republic,
Plato
How does Plato use reasoning in this excerpt?
He moves from specific observations of people to a general conclusion about art.
He moves from a premise about people to specific predictions about how they will behave.
He moves from a narrow claim about trends in his society to a broad claim about trends in all societies.
He moves from narrow observations of how people behave to a broad conclusion about people.
