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The Man known as The Man · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:25 pm Post subject:

Deductive.

HTH

mysteriousdeltarays · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject:

I would have thought a multiple choice question format including seductive and addictive.

"She lived alone except for a nameless cat."

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

i certainly use deductive thinking when writing a paper. Once i've used inductivce thinking to come up with a thesis, I use deductive thinking to prove that thesis. If that makes any sense.

hojucandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place

both modes of thinking have their uses from time to time. i try to believe as little as possible - that is i try to question everything i am told, and the things i think know - - so i reckon i lean heavily towards the inductive. deduction then is a tool - a means to an end when something in the world has to be worked upon...

Len8 · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Location: Kyungju

Everybody is deductive, but a lttle bit inductive. I would love to meet somebody who is toaly inductive, especially if she's beautiful.

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

Just so you know, the true scientific ,ethod is inductive. You must analyse data without having a preconception of what you will find. Otherwise your bias will affect your method. A clever person can find anything they want with any set of data, but it's not science. To be inductive means to not have preconceptions about how things are, but to ask questions, and seek to answer those questions. An inductive person is more likely to be will to change a position when encountering new data. A deductive person already "knows" the answer, and will seek to reinterpret the new data so as to confirm what s/he already "knows" to be true.