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  1. Dec 2022
    1. I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.

      I don't believe any deductive reasoning was used.

  2. May 2022
    1. If you assume cops are basically good and just need help doing their job better, then body cameras make sense.

      This is a deductive argument, but I believe theres no error in the way it's used

    1. Some universities have restructured programs to emphasize the ability to work, socialize and research across languages, offering dual degrees in which students’ language education is directly tied to its application in their other fields of study. Georgia Tech, for example, has devised programs aimed at developing language skills that allow them to work more effectively in, and to be more attractive to, international companies and organizations.

      "Appeal to the people," the fallacy of popular, (argumentum and populm) by making an argument that something is the right or correct thing to do because a lot of people agree with doing it.

  3. Nov 2021
    1. Notice that in the else branch, we don’t need to do anything special - if x wasn’t a string[], then it must have been a string.
  4. Feb 2019
    1. inductive

      For anyone like me who always has to stop and think about which is which:

      Observation --> theory (inductive)

      Theory --> observed confirmation (deductive)

      Latour's actor-network theory and grounded theory follow inductive reasoning.