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Old 17th July 2011, 07:08 PM   #125
plainskeptic
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Episode on Deductive vs inductive logic

I vote for the McDonald's coffee suit.

I would also like to see an episode on deductive vs inductive logic.

Specific to general and general to specific are not the essential characteristics for defining these forms of logic.

Deductive logic can go from general to specific,
but it can also go from specific to specific.

Here is a deductive argument that goes from specific to specific.

If Yale exists, God exists.
Yale exists.
Therefore, God exists.

I hear erroneous definitions given frequently.
Heard one last night on Star Trek Next Generation.
I have read them in college textbooks.

Chris Rippel
Great Bend, Kansas
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