What kind of reasoning does Machiavelli use in this
excerpt?
It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two,
either must be dispensed with....
Among the wonderful deeds of Hannibal this one is
enumerated: that having led an enormous army,
composed of many various races of men, to fight in
foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or
against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good
fortune. This arose from nothing else than his inhuman
cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him
revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but
without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient
to produce this effect.
-The Prince,
Niccolò Machiavelli
O He uses inductive reasoning because he offers
statistics to prove his claim.
O He uses inductive reasoning because he observes
a pattern and proves a conclusion
O He uses deductive reasoning because he relies on
scientific experiments to prove a conclusion
O He uses deductive reasoning because he
introduces a conclusion and proves it with
evidence.