TFY Chapter 12 Summary
1. Deductive reasoning is the process of starting with one or more statements called premises and investigating what conclusions necessarily follow from these premises.
2. Deduction is the subject of formal logic, whose main concern is with creating forms that demonstrate reasoning.
3. The standardized language of syllogisms allows a reduction of every day language into verbal equations.
4. Syllogisms allow logicians to determine what is being said, to identify hidden premises, and to find out out if the argument makes senses.
5. Deductive and inductive reasoning are not isolated pursuits but are mentally interwoven both in major and mundane problem solving.
6. It is possible to infer the rules of valid and invalid reasoning from the study of models.