Saturday, November 13, 2010
Difficult to Understand
One concept that I found difficult to understand was Sign Reasoning. When you use Sign Reasoning, one assumes that one event is the indicator of another event that is to follow. For example, many people believe that if they walk under a latter, break glass, or have a black cat cross your path, you will have bad luck. There has never been any reliable research done that proves any of these methods liable, however, most of the population believes these old wise tails and go out of their way to avoid doing these things. Also, when people wake up with a sore throat, they automatically assume they are getting sick and are getting a cold. The reasoning of this concept, is due to the fact that when you are sick, your throat is sore; therefore, a slightly sore throat is an indicator that you will be sick soon,. http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sign+reasoning&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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It is strange because I think sign reasoning is the easiest one to understand, but you think it is the most difficult one to understand. Sign reasoning is pretty straight-forward. It goes by its name "sign". Sign reasoning is when you make an assumption that relate to an event or sign that probably be related to the conclusions. I think you already get what is sign reasoning by reading the example you provide. I give you another example. The simplest example I can say is "when there is dark cloud, there is rain. Today, the cloud is dark. So, today will rain." It is pretty easy to understand now, right?
ReplyDeleteI agree with ttran that sign reasoning was one of the easier ones to understand. After taking another look at the website Carol provided us, I only read the logic section and that one was easy. Other sections like science and enthymemes were harder. Probably because they did not have a chart like the logic section did and I am more of a visual learner. Both of you provided definitions and they were easy to understand. From your example, it sounds like you understand it a lot better now. Your post on the reasoning was pretty good, as if you had no problem to start with.
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