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The documentary Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic provided a deductive reason for why he lit himself on fire.
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But since the study of the strategies of ampliative reasoning overlaps with the study of the strategies of deductive reasoning, there is a good reason to include both in the theory of logic in a wide sense.
There is also no reason to suggest that deductive reasoning must remain mutually exclusive of a more inductive approach, in which analyses of observational data (fieldnotes, interviews, focus groups, texts and other qualitative sources) lead to novel insights about social phenomena that may be transferable (generalizable) and that can build new or challenge/nuance existing theories.
One function of reason involves "seeing" how evidence supports a conclusion, and in deductive reasoning, "seeing" how conclusions follow from premises.
As with most thinkers influenced by the Greek philosophical tradition, Augustine conceives of reason rather austerely, focusing upon the mind's ability to engage in deductive reasoning, where logical necessity is the criterion of adequacy.
And excels at deductive reasoning.
So we typically indulge in inductive rather than deductive reasoning.
Even "experts" make basic mistakes in deductive reasoning.
However, such deductive approaches must differ from ordinary deductive reasoning in one important respect.
But even if deductive reasoning can't get any less deductive than that, it's because Wexford is saving his better ideas for later in the game.
The 75 others had to do with reading comprehension and deductive reasoning.
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