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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Here is why Bitcoin can only go down
by
arcmetal
on 29/11/2019, 17:07:16 UTC

P and Q are similar in respect to property x.
P has been observed to have further property y.
Therefore, Q has property y also.

In my example I assumed limited supply of Motorola cellular phones. Meaning, Motorola phones(P) and Bitcoin(Q) are similar in respect to limited supply(x). Then I made the second premise: limited supply of Motorola phones
Even your P and Q statement would be considered really poor deductive reasoning.

Just because YOU label that something is similar does not make it so. ... For your deductive proof to work, Q would need to be a subset of P.  Here are some examples of useful statements:

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Elephants have cells in their bodies and all cells have DNA. Therefore, elephants have DNA.

All noble gases are stable. Helium is a noble gas, so helium is stable.

Here are examples of poor deductive reason (because poor assumptions are made, that is, Q is not necessarily a subset of P, or we have no proof of their properties matching up):

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All swans are white. Jane is white. Therefore, Jane is a swan.

All farmers like burgers. Jethro likes chicken wings. Therefore, Jethro is not a farmer.


The above was taken from:
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/deductive-reasoning-examples.html