Lindsey Lane October 21‚ 2012 The Importance of Deductive Reasoning Critical Thinking Kevin White It is important to understand what is known prior to making a decision because the decision could be either wrong or right. Making decisions at times can be a hard thing to do. There are many pros and cons for decision making. In argument five To Cheat or Not to Cheat Jenna has a big decision to make. She has to decide whether or not she wants to continue her class by being honest or to
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Proactive Fraud Auditing End of Chapter 4 in Albrecht FRAUD DETECTION Recognizing the Symptoms of Fraud Identify Risk Exposures Proactively Look for Symptoms & Exposures 1 2 Actg 537 Identify Fraud Symptoms for Each Exposure 3 4 Investigate Identified Symptoms Symptoms of Fraud What are some irregularities in source documents to look for? Missing Documents Payee Names & Addresses = Employee “Stale Items” on Bank Items” Reconciliation Excessive Voids or Credits
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profession. However‚ proactive policing efforts have developed over the years and provide a greater police response to addressing crime issues. Proactive policing is a simple concept. Proactive policing efforts are self-initiated police activities that prevent crime from occurring. Some examples of proactive policing efforts that citizens are familiar with would include officers issuing traffic citations‚ completing field interviews‚ and stakeouts. Although this type of policing is proactive‚ citizens see
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the agencies are just inquiring due to the funding. Most of the police organizations applying for the grants do not fully understand the new style‚ and either intentionally or unintentionally misuse the funds. Community orientated policing is a proactive philosophy that promotes solving problems that are either criminal‚ affect the quality of life‚ or increase citizens fear of crime. It involves identifying‚ analyzing and addressing community problems at their source. Unfortunately‚ many individuals
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Mill ’s Inductive reasoning Method of Agreement Mill ’s method of agreement identifies a cause of an event in terms of its sufficient condition. When using this method‚ one searches for a single factor that is common to multiple situations in which the same event occurred. Mill says that‚ when two or more occurrences of the event under investigation have only one condition in common‚ then that condition is the cause of the event. (Mill‚ 2002) More simply stated‚ Mill ’s method of agreement
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Outlines steps: Formulate idea into topic sentences Identify the major details to explain the topic sentence: Roman numerals for the first level of ideas Identify the minor supporting details under each major detail; use capital letters for the second level of ideas if more details are to be included‚ use Arabic numerals for the third level and small letters for the fourth level of ideas EXAMPLE Topic Sentence I. First major supporting detail A. First minor ssupporting detail B. Second
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Deductive Reasoning 1.The ancient Greeks used Deductive reasoning to solve many things. They learned theses things form the Egyptians and the Babylonians. They learned how to solve geometric constructions like circles‚ squares‚ and pyramids‚ they also learned how to determine they lengths of objects from the Babylonians by using Pythagorean theorem. Building upon what they learned from the Egyptians and Babylonians they found fundamental truths in geometry‚ and from these truths they mad propositions
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Philosophy Homework 15/09/2011 Deductive Arguments: A deductive argument isn’t necessarily valid‚ it could be invalid. It also isn’t necessarily sound – it could be unsound. If the argument is valid and the premises are true then overall the argument is sound. You will always gain knowledge with a deductive argument. The first premise will link with the second premise in order to make a conclusion. Deductive arguments aren’t based on assumptions. Inductive Arguments: The premises are all true
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The hypothetico-deductive model or method is a proposed description of scientific method. According to it‚ scientific inquiry proceeds by formulating a hypothesis in a form that could conceivably be falsified by a test on observable data. A test that could and does run contrary to predictions of the hypothesis is taken as a falsification of the hypothesis. A test that could but does not run contrary to the hypothesis corroborates the theory. It is then proposed to compare the explanatory value of
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cognizant of his or her surroundings while shopping at local malls. Premise 2: Three local malls in San Antonio had incidents in the past two days. Conclusion: Therefore‚ people need to be vigilant while shopping at local malls in San Antonio. The deductive argument is true since premise 1 states people should be cognizant of his or her surroundings while shopping at malls. This argument is a valid statement. The San Antonio Police Department asks that people be cautious while shopping and also to
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