Consciousness. Free reference manager and PDF organizer. Deduction & Induction. « PreviousHomeNext » In logic, we often refer to the two broad methods of reasoning as the deductive and inductive approaches.
Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more specific. Sometimes this is informally called a "top-down" approach. We might begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest. We then narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that we can test. Motivation and emotion. Table of Contents.