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In the category of information, all persons that one has known who have smoked a pipe have been good people. This stranger smokes a pipe. Thus it is probable that this person is ok.
People use both the Inductive and Deductive methods of reasoning all the time depending on the situation and often simultaneously. For instance, if one is near sighted and has forgot one's glasses and sees someone at a distance they cannot quite recognize. An example of Inductive Reasoning might be wherein the individual waves at the person and the person waves back with a handkerchief in their hand. This is evidence that the individual is Blinky since this is the manner in which they often wave. At the same time, it is known with a fair certainty that there are only two other persons on the premises at this time. An example of Deductive Reasoning is wherein the individual also knows that one of these two people named Winky is probably sleeping. If this is the case by deduction, the unidentified person is in all probability Blinky and not Wiinky who is probably asleep. This combined with the propensity of Blinky to wave with handkerchiefs indicates that the person in the distance is most probably Blinky.
In a different vein, as the necessity to recognize dangerous circumstance, upon seeing a strange bear one must be able to ascertain whether this individual bear is dangerous or not. From the general to the particular, the category of bears are dangerous and thus so is this one. The conclusion proceeds any actual evidence that this particular bear is dangerous. Better safe than sorry. From the particular to the general, the risk of this individual bear is made based upon the observed behavior in the present circumstance.
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