Deductive reasoning: given a general conclusion or principle, one determines specific consequences or applications
-starts with generals truths and moves to specific conclusions
-it is explained with statements known or believed to be ture and continues with predicitons for specific observations supporting the facts
-concerned with testing or comfirming a hypothesis
-logic is more athoritize in the method
Inductive reasoning: given a specific hypothesis or observation, one combines observation and prior knowledge to reach a general conclusion.
-not so specific details but to more general underlying principles or process that explains them.-more of the "scientific method"
-begin with the specific observations and measures, begin to detect patterns ,formulate some tentative hypothesis to explore and end up developing some general conclusions or theory
