What is abductive reasoning?
Which statement uses abductive reasoning?
What is inductive reasoning?
Read this excerpt from a letter to the editor about education.Countries that have good education systems are strong nations. This is because strong nations are able to give their citizens the education they need to make the world better.
What is a non sequitur?
Read the excerpt from Malala Yousafzai’s speech at the United Nations.The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them. And that is why they killed 14 innocent medical students in the recent attack in Quetta. And that is why they killed many female teachers and polio workers in Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa and FATA. That is why they are blasting schools every day. Because they were and they are afraid of change, afraid of the equality that we will bring into our society.
What is an ad populum fallacy?
Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can Do” by Indira Gandhi.Today, we are passing through specially dark days. But these are not dark days for India alone. Except for the countries which call themselves socialist and about which we do not really know very much, every other country has the same sort of economic problems, which we have. Only a few countries, which have very small populations, have no unemployment. Otherwise, the rich countries also today have unemployment. They have shortages of essential articles. They have shortages even of food.
Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can Do” by Indira Gandhi.Before anybody does anything, he has to have, of course, knowledge and capability, but along with it he has to have a certain amount of pride in what he or she is doing. He has to have self-confidence in his own ability. If your teacher tells [you], "You cannot do this,” even if you are a very bright student I think every time you will find, it will be more and more difficult for you to do it. But if your teacher encourages [you] saying, "Go along you have done very good work, now try a little harder,” then you will try a little harder and you will be able to do it. And it is the same with societies and with countries.
Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can Do” by Indira Gandhi. Some people think that only by taking up very high jobs, you are doing something important or you are doing national service. But we all know that the most complex machinery will be ineffective if one small screw is not working as it should and that screw is just as important as any big part. It is the same in national life. There is no job that is too small; there is no person who is too small. Everybody has something to do. And if he or she does it well, then the country will run well.
Read this excerpt from a letter to the editor about a school’s curriculum.Some members of the school board argue that all students should study the same foreign language. However, choice has been an important part of our school curriculum for decades. Students are more engaged and do better when they study subjects that they are interested in and that they choose to take. Why are these board members trying to remove student choice from our curriculum?
Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can Do” by Indira Gandhi. Now, we have got education and there is a debate all over the country whether this education is adequate to the needs of society or the needs of our young people. I am one of those who always believe that education needs a thorough overhauling. But at the same time, I think that everything in our education is not bad, that even the present education has produced very fine men and women, specially scientists and experts in different fields, who are in great demand all over the world and even in the most affluent countries. Many of our young people leave us and go abroad because they get higher salaries, they get better conditions of work.
Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can Do” by Indira Gandhi.For instance, when I cut my hair, it was because of the sort of life that I was leading. We were all in the movement. You simply could not have long hair and go in the villages and wash it every day. So, when you lead a life, a particular kind of life, your clothes, your everything has to fit into that life if you are to be efficient.
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