Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Cause and Effect Website

The aspect of this website I found most useful is the way they explained the use of inductive reasoning in a real life example. Situations like these happen everyday and it is good to know that inductive reason can be used to solve them and make both sides of the argument more clear. I liked how both sides of the story were presented and you could see how the bicyclist moved out of the way because the truck was illegally parked and how the car slammed on his breaks because the bicyclist was in front of him. I also liked how they explained how the fallacies worked into inductive reasoning. An example is the post hoc fallacy where A must occur right before B. Therefore the car could not have slammed on its brakes on Tuesday and get hit on Thursday. The check points at the bottom of the website also helped me because it Is and easy checklist to see if the argument is strong or not by if the event is reasonable, the source is reliable and can be demonsrated.

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