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If all animals have 4 legs and if a table also has 4 legs, then the table is also an animal. What is this type of argument called?

If all animals have 4 legs and if a table also has 4 legs, then the table is also an animal. What is this type of argument called? Correct Answer Deductive reasoning

An argument has one or more premises but only one conclusion. Each premise and the conclusions are truth-bearers or truth candidates, each capable of being either true or false (but not both).

Key Points

Inductive reasoning
  • Inductive reasoning, or inductive logic, is a type of reasoning that involves drawing a general conclusion from a set of specific observations.
  • Bottom-up logic, because it involves widening specific premises out into broader generalizations.
  • As an example: In the summer, there are mangoes. Therefore, summer will bring mangoes.
Analogical reasoning
  • Analogical reasoning is a kind of reasoning that is based on finding a common relational system between two situations, exemplars, or domains.
  • When such a common system can be found, then what is known about one situation can be used to infer new information about the other.
Hypothetical reasoning
  • Hypothetical Reasoning provides evidence against a hypothesis by testing its logical consequences.
  • In other words: Hypothetical reasoning is a problem-solving approach that explores several different alternative solutions in parallel to determine which approach or series of steps best solves a particular problem.
Deductive reasoning
  • The form of logical reasoning in which a conclusion is shown to follow necessarily from a sequence of premises, the first of which stands for a self-evident truth (see axiom) or agreed-upon data. 
  • It is when you take two true statements, or premises, to form a conclusion. For example, A is equal to B. B is also equal to C. Given those two statements, you can conclude A is equal to C using deductive reasoning.

Thus, If all animals have 4 legs and if a table also has 4 legs, then the table is also an animal, is a deductive argument.

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