A concept from Epstein that can be further discussed is deductive reasoning. When I first read this concept in the book I found it very difficult to understand at first. The book gave a vague delimitation of that I found very difficult to comprehend. It took me until I looked up deductive reasoning online before I could fully understand it. After looking it up online I what I understood is that Deductive reasoning is a basic form in valid reasoning in which begins with a general case and deduces specific instances. Deductive reasoning begins with a theory. The truth of the premises is supposed to guarantee the truth of the conclusion; in an inductive argument, the truth of the premises merely makes it probable that the conclusion is true. The argument is valid if the conclusion doesn’t really follow from the premise. If the book the book did a better job of explaining this concept it would be much easier to understand.
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