chap-12 TFYDeductive Reasoning

Summary on chap-12,from TFY Deductive Reasoning
Deductive reasoning is the process of starting with one or more statements called premises and investigating what conclusions necessarily follow from these premises.It is the subject of formal logic whose main concern is with creating forms that demostrate reasoning.Logic has it's own technical vocabulary.
Deductive and inductive reasoning are not isolated pursuits but are mentally interwoven both in major and mundane problem solving.It is possible to infer the rules of valid reasoning form the study of models.Syllogisms allow logicians to determine what is being said ,to identify hidden premises and to findout if the argument makes sense.