easy · GMAT Verbal
Consider the argument: 'All mammals breathe air. A whale is a mammal. Therefore, a whale breathes air.'
What type of reasoning does this argument illustrate?
- Abductive reasoning, inferring the single most likely explanation for an observation.
- Inductive reasoning, generalizing from a set of specific cases to a merely probable conclusion.
- Reasoning by analogy, transferring a shared property from one familiar thing to a second similar one.
- Causal reasoning, identifying the factor that actually brings about the observed effect.
- Deductive reasoning, applying a general rule to a specific case to reach a certain conclusion.
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