LSAT Practice Test

What strategy involves reasoning from the general to the particular?

1. Appeal to Hypocrisy

2. Denying the antecedent

3. Deductive reasoning

4. Appeal to Emotion

The correct answer is: Deductive reasoning

Deductive reasoning involves reasoning from the general to the particular. In deductive reasoning, one starts with a general premise or information and then uses that to reach a specific conclusion. This type of reasoning is based on logical implications and is commonly used in fields such as mathematics and formal logic. The other options are not correct because: - Appeal to Hypocrisy is a logical fallacy where one's argument is discounted due to the person making the argument not acting consistently with it. - Denying the antecedent is a formal fallacy in propositional logic where one infers that the conditional statement is false because the antecedent is false. - Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy where an argument is made based on manipulating emotions rather than using valid reasoning. Therefore, the correct answer is Deductive reasoning because it aligns with the strategy of reasoning from the general to the particular.