There are four types of reasoning methods introduced to us
in chapter 15; deductive reasoning, inductive, casual, and analogical. When I
read about these and looked back at recent persuasive conversations that I have
had with others I noticed two of these four reasoning methods most commonly
used by me, which were casual reasoning, followed by deductive reasoning. I
recently tried to persuade my friend to start working out to deal with her
fatigue. Her response to me was that it doesn’t make sense for her to exercise
if she’s already tired, it will just make her more tired. I tried to explain to
her through casual reasoning that exercise provides your body increased energy
so that she wouldn’t feel tired necessarily after exercise but may perhaps benefit
from being more tired later at night to allow her to get better sleep. She
argued it didn’t make sense. Then I used deductive reasoning in which I presented
to her where I showed her examples of articles in which people that exercised
experienced greater amounts of energy, concluding to her that she would
experience the same.
I thought you had a really good example of a type of reasoning you have used in normal, everyday conversations that are persuasive. Different types of reasoning can be a little difficult to understand, despite the fact that we use them basically on a daily basis. Although I know what deductive reasoning is, I was having trouble identifying examples of it, but I thought that you provided a great example when you said that you proved to her to exercise by giving her articles on the topic and that was how she was able to deduce that exercising would increase energy.
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