Which of these examples illustrates deductive reasoning?
You learned in elementary school that as temperature drops, liquids change into solid and predict that it will become solid if you put it in the freezer.
You come down with the flu after you pretended to be sick so you could skip work to decide that fate always punishes you for bad behavior.
You and your roommate both drank two cups of coffee before an exam, and both of you did poorly on the exam. You hypothesize that coffee drinking improves academic performance.
Which of these examples illustrates deductive reasoning? You learned in elementary…
Which of these examples illustrates deductive reasoning?
