Rhea is preparing the family home for her uncle, who is coming to visit. Rhea has only met him one time, but on that occasion, h
e was annoyed that the radio was playing loudly. Now, Rhea assumes he doesn't like music at all and puts her own radio in the closet. This is an example of ____ reasoning.
Sometimes everyone makes conclusion based on things that we have seen or observed. When things like this is done we are said to be making an inductive reasoning.
Conjectures that is to conclusions; are drawn from the examples that we have seen and there is tendency that we generalize things from what we have observed.
Just like Rhea did in the question, Rhea makes an assumption that her Uncle doesn't like music due to what she has seen or observed in the past. Rhea conjecture might be false because it might be that her Uncle was not in the right state of mind during that past experience she observed.
Inductive reasoning is based on observation. The arguments for the conclusion may <u>not</u> be completely certain, and thus the conclusion is only <u>probably</u> true. In the example, it's possible that Rhea's uncle doesn't like music, but it's <u>not</u> necessarily true.
In contrast, deductive reasoning is based on absolute certainty, which make the conclusion necessarily true. An example: we need air to breathe > there is no air underwater > we cannot breathe underwater.
