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吉林大学远程教育学院

    >>>>   Unit One
    >>>>   Unit Two
    >>>>   Unit Three
    >>>>   Unit Four
    >>>>   Unit Five
    >>>>   Unit Six
    >>>>   Unit Seven
    >>>>   Unit Eight
    >>>>   Unit Nine
    >>>>   Unit Ten
    >>>>   Unit Eleven
    >>>>   Unit Twelve
    >>>>   Unit Thirteen
    >>>>   Unit Fourteen
    >>>>   Unit Fifteen
    >>>>   Unit Sixteen
    >>>>   Unit Seventeen
    >>>>   Unit Eighteen
    >>>>   Unit Nineteen
    >>>>   Unit Twenty
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-one
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-two
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-three
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-four
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-five
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-six
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-seven
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-eight
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-nine
    >>>>   Unit Thirty

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Background Information

Methods of reasoning
There are two types of reasoning process, “deductive”and “inductive.” deductive reasoning begins with a general theory or premise and then seeks to reach a conclusion on the basis of the general information. This process of reasoning is what we call a syllogism. Inductive reasoning starts from a particular experience and proceeds to generalization. The person may start with “ All apples I have eaten were sweet,” and induces “Apples are sweet” as “common sense.” But the next apple may not be sweet. Inductive reasoning leads to probabilities, not certainties, and needs to be verified by scientific experiments. By using both inductive and deductive reasoning, we can arrive at a general law.