Every day you use inductive reasoning to draw conclusions based on the events that occur around you. Most of the time you are likely not even aware that you are doing this. Inductive reasoning is used to form conjectures. Unfortunately, conjectures can be shown false by a single counterexample.

Deductive reasoning allows you to make conclusions with much more certainty, but deductive reasoning can be harder to work with than inductive reasoning. With deductive reasoning, your premises must be true and your reasoning must be correct in order to arrive at a valid conclusion. Mathematical proofs use deductive reasoning to show that a conjecture is true for all cases.

You have completed Unit 3: Logic and Reasoning.