Question

Why would it be silly to think of scientific reasoning in terms of deductive logic only? How could inductive logic give a better account of scientific reason

Answer 1

It would be silly to thinks of scientific reasoning in terms of deductive logic only because not all the fenomena can be explain with a general premise, some of then are special fenomena that need to be study from the specific and the propose a general theory. With the inductive logic we can prove in a better way our hypothesis because we compare several things then we are identifying patterns and then give a conclusion.

the inductive logic could give a better account of scientific reason beacuse it goes from something particular to the general. Example lets say that we want to know if all dogs have 4 legs, by inductive logic we would compare several dogs and we woudl see that all of them have four legs, so all the dogs have for legs.

In a good inductive argument the premise should provide some degree of support to the conclusion, where such support mean that the truth of the premises indicates with some degree of strenght that the conclusion is true.