| In a message dated 8/31/2001 6:37:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: la nitcion cusku di'e As I said, "induction" is about worst word to mess with ("abduction" and "conduction" are actually worse but almost no one uses them). There are, of course, rules fro all kinds of reasoning and all reasoning leads from premises to conclusion (antecedent information to resulting new information). Some rules guarantee that the conclusion is at least as certain as the premises, others don't, a few pretty much guarantee the opposite. Some are mathematically precise, some are fairly precise, some are sloppy below the "rule of thumb" level. My advice is to have a good word for deductively valid arguments and after that just go with reasoning. If it really matter, talk about the paradigm that you are working off of; that probably counts for more than the actual rules most of the time. |