According to Your Textbook, What Kind Oreasoning Is Used in the Following

question 206

Multiple Choice

According to your textbook, what kind oreasoning is used in the following statement?
We do not have to look very far to find reasons for the explosion in the number oviolent crimes committed by teenagers in the United States. Not only are guns readily available to teenagers, but today's teenagers have grown up in a culture that glamorizes violence in television and films. The average child in the U.S. has seen more than 20,000 murders on television by the time he or she turns eighteen. Is it any wonder that many othose children are now committing violent crimes themselves?

• A) analogical reasoning
• B) reasoning from principle
• C) causal reasoning
• D) reasoning from deduction
• E) analytical reasoning

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Definitions:

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