This page provides links to information on the following types of reasoning.

Aesthetic Reasoning

Ethical Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning
These pages provide information about inductive arguments. The arguments presented include such useful arguments as analogical argument, argument by example and argument from authority.

Fallacies
These pages provide information about a variety of informal fallacies. Put roughly, a fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. To be a bit more formal, a fallacy occurs when the premises (evidence) fail to adequately support the conclusion (the claim being made).

   
   
Copyright 2004 Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere
Last Updated 4/12/2006