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2. Crooped The "School of Athens General to Specific- Deductive Reasoning is key ! Plato 424BC– 347 BC Get Down with the Inductive Method! It Rocks! Aristotle 384 BC – 322 BC

3. Quotes from Plato “Apply yourself, both now & in the next life. “ “All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman.” “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and lead us from this world to another”

4. Aristotle and Plato were two of the most influential men in Western history. Plato formed an Academy in Athens which was the first higher education learning center in the western world. They disagreed on two fundamental ways of interpreting science – Plato=Deductive-starting from a general conclusion and finding facts to support that evidence – Aristotle=Inductive-starts from specific facts and builds up to a general conclusion

5. Examples of Deductive Reasoning All oranges are fruits All fruits grow on trees Therefore all oranges grow on trees. *note, this is a faulty statement, but the idea is Deductive. If all organisms have cells and if humans are organisms, then humans should have cells. All x are y, all y are z hence all x are z

6. Examples of Inductive Reasoning I observed cells in x, y, and z organisms therefore all animals have cells Every time you eat shrimp you get cramps. Therefore, you get cramps because you eat shrimp. All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore he is mortal.