Question

Roberto says, "All dogs bark. Spot is a dog. Therefore, Spot barks." This is an example of A) conservation. B) transitive inference. C) inductive reasoning. D) deductive reasoning.

Answer 1

This is an example D) deductive reasoning.

Deductive reasoning is the type of reasoning concerned with making a general statement, and then citing a more specific statement. It is also known as "top-down" logic. Here, the general statement is all dogs bark. This means that all examples of dogs, including Spot, can bark.