Logical reasoning
Apr. 22nd, 2007 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThis morning's tricky discussion: whether the investigation of a crime involves deductive or inductive reasoning. To me, it seems to involve deductive reasoning of the form:
P1: The fleck of paint came from the crime scene
P2: The fleck of paint is identical to the paint on the car
C: Therefore the car was at the crime scene
I suppose it could be argued that reasoning actually applied isn't deductive because it goes beyond the simple premises, but I'd suggest that in most cases this is due to the presence of enthymemes rather than going beyond the evidence, but maybe I'm wrong...
P1: The fleck of paint came from the crime scene
P2: The fleck of paint is identical to the paint on the car
C: Therefore the car was at the crime scene
I suppose it could be argued that reasoning actually applied isn't deductive because it goes beyond the simple premises, but I'd suggest that in most cases this is due to the presence of enthymemes rather than going beyond the evidence, but maybe I'm wrong...
