Week 4: Post #3

Chapter 6 teaches us an abundance about Conditional Claims and something that stood out to me most was, Reasoning from hypotheses.  Basically it tells us to make the hypotheses guess A and make a good argument for B.  Hence, we can create a good argument for "If A, then B."  We always want to have one main claim while reasoning from the hypotheses and use the, "then B" as additional support to our argument.  I've always enjoyed reasoning from hypotheses because it gives off a sense of validity that we're making an educated guess, therefore B should be a valid argument.

It brings me back to when we were doing science projects in grade school and I was asked to make a hypotheses to something like, "What would happen if you put a plant outside for 5 days with sunlight and water?"  I would answer "My hypotheses consisted of, IF the plant had nourishing components, THEN it will eventually grow.  At age 6 or 7, it definitely doesn't come as common sense but thanks to Reasoning from hypotheses, I was able to make an educated guess A then make a good argument for B.  After all, when the results came in, my hypotheses was right for the predicted conclusion.