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I'm doing the TPR VR content book and they have a sample question without an associated passage:
When an argument is inductive, that argument:
A. is necessarily less conclusive than an argument that attempts to use deductive logic
B. is based on probability, such that the likelihood that its premises are all true is no greater than the likelihood of the truth of its conclusion
C. seeks to find identify causes or explanations
D. when valid, may be based on evaluation of a representative sample of a population
I believe the answer is D, but how was I supposed to come to that conclusion without having previous knowledge of inductive reasoning?
When an argument is inductive, that argument:
A. is necessarily less conclusive than an argument that attempts to use deductive logic
B. is based on probability, such that the likelihood that its premises are all true is no greater than the likelihood of the truth of its conclusion
C. seeks to find identify causes or explanations
D. when valid, may be based on evaluation of a representative sample of a population
I believe the answer is D, but how was I supposed to come to that conclusion without having previous knowledge of inductive reasoning?