Through the ages, logicians have discovered two different types
of reasoning: inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. How
these two differ lies at the heart of the philosophy of logic. I
will attempt to show how these two ways of thinking are
fundamentally different, and how both are useful in their own
way. Inductive reasoning is also called scientific reasoning.
Since I'm a beekeeper, I will use an example with honey bees to
explain what inductive reasoning is. Honey bee hives are dying
all across the country. This is an actual fact. I have
experienced this in my own apiary. Let us suppose that the
University of Illinois hired me to examine a thousand hives to
see what was killing them. I observe that five hundred of these
hives have varroa mites. However, the other five hundred hives
do not have mites. I observe, in my very scientific way, that
hives with mites usually die in a year, but hives without mites
live. I conclude that varroa mites are killing honey bees. Honey
Bee with Varroa Mites How did