chapter 6

• inductive reasoning might be described as arguing from specific cases to more general conclusions 
• deductive reasoning is essentially the opposite process, and entails moving from overall theories or generally accepted principles to conclusions about moving from overall theories or generally accepted principles to conclusions about specific cases 
• an argument by example examines one or more cases within a specific class and reasons that if  cases have certain common features, then other, as yet unknown cases in that class will also have these features 
• hasty generalizations are arguments from examples to a generalization that moves too quickly without sufficient rationale or a logical fallacy 
• A fallacy is a flaw in the reasoning process 
• An advocate who commits a hasty generalization has potentially reasoned fallaciously and the generalization
• an argument by analogy seeks to identify similarities between cases between cases that might on the surface seem to be quite dissimilar, in order to permit an interference to be drawn.
• analogies are typically, literally and creative devices that appeal to the listeners' expierences and beliefs and they often used to embellish our stories