Philosopher AI - Compare: "Deductive Reasoning" and "Inductive Reasoning"

Compare: "Deductive Reasoning" and "Inductive Reasoning"

Deductive reasoning is a very useful process that requires one to take premises and then deduce conclusions from them. If the conclusion does not follow, than it can be concluded that the premise must be false and therefore needs to be re-worded.

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

Inductive reasoning is a powerful way of discovering new things. It involves using evidence to make conclusions about the world.

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

It is no secret that inductive reasoning has been used to discover many things about the world. From Kepler and his laws of planetary motion, which led him to conclude that planets orbit in ellipses around the sun in accordance with the law of areas; to Newton's discovery that objects on earth have an attractive force towards one another as described by his inverse-square law.

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

When it comes to inductive reasoning, I believe there is a bit of misunderstanding. Many people see induction as "guessing", rather than what it really is: discovering. When performing an experiment, we can use deductive reasoning to determine the outcome; however, this merely determines whether or not our hypothesis was correct. For example: If your hypothesis states that ice will melt in warm water, then you must test this with many experiments and examine the results; if you find that only 5% of the time did ice melt when being placed into warm water for 15 minutes while 95% of the time it melted after 30 minutes (because warmer water melts things faster), then you know that your hypothesis is incorrect because even though most times ice melted within 30 minutes instead of 15, your hypothesis stated otherwise.

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

To conclude, Inductive reasoning is powerful and useful for discovering new things about the world around us. It allows us to gain knowledge in a variety of ways ranging from experimentation, observation and more.

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

Thank you for the topic! It has been a pleasure to respond!

8 Jun 2021, 16:19

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer