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What are the three fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text?
- Answer: 1. Comparative Reasoning
2. Ideological Reasoning
3. Empirical Reasoning
, What is comparative reasoning?
On what skill is it based? - Answer: Comparative reasoning (this-is-like-
that thinking)
enables us to make interpretations, draw inferences, or offer
explanations by relying on something that is more familiar to
understand something that is less familiar.
*We learned four tests for evaluating arguments:
1. truthfulness of the premises
2. logical strength
3. relevance
4. non-circularity.
*How well do these tests work with respect to evaluating comparative
reasoning?
*Consider each of the four tests. - Answer: ·1. Are the premises all
True?
True and false are not optimal for evaluating a sentence that asserts a
comparison- DOES NOT WORK
2. Are there counter examples and how difficult is it to imagine them ?
This question helps gauge the logical strength of the analogy. It helps to
categorize comparisons as more or less plausible. DOES NOT WORK
comparative reasoning because there are too many cases of similarities
and dissimilarities.
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What are the three fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text?
- Answer: 1. Comparative Reasoning
2. Ideological Reasoning
3. Empirical Reasoning
, What is comparative reasoning?
On what skill is it based? - Answer: Comparative reasoning (this-is-like-
that thinking)
enables us to make interpretations, draw inferences, or offer
explanations by relying on something that is more familiar to
understand something that is less familiar.
*We learned four tests for evaluating arguments:
1. truthfulness of the premises
2. logical strength
3. relevance
4. non-circularity.
*How well do these tests work with respect to evaluating comparative
reasoning?
*Consider each of the four tests. - Answer: ·1. Are the premises all
True?
True and false are not optimal for evaluating a sentence that asserts a
comparison- DOES NOT WORK
2. Are there counter examples and how difficult is it to imagine them ?
This question helps gauge the logical strength of the analogy. It helps to
categorize comparisons as more or less plausible. DOES NOT WORK
comparative reasoning because there are too many cases of similarities
and dissimilarities.
