🎮 From Where to Where?

📖 About this game

A game on the two lessons of deductive and inductive reasoning in critical thinking. Deduction moves from a general proposition to a specific one and its conclusion follows from its premises of necessity, while induction climbs from the specific to the general, generalising a rule out of particular cases established by observation or experiment, so its conclusion is likely rather than certain. Why the whole argument is shown, premises and conclusion, rather than an abstract question asking for the name of a kind: the direction cannot be seen except on a page holding both ends, and a learner who sets the premise against the conclusion and sees which is the wider has applied the rule. Why no line is tagged general or specific in the question: the tag is the answer itself, so the lines are left bare until the tap falls and are then all tagged at once, letting the learner see the direction on the page rather than be told it. The kind is computed from the tag on each line and never typed by hand: a general premise with a specific conclusion is deduction, all-specific premises with a general conclusion is induction, so the name can never contradict the lines shown. Six arguments come down and six climb; the balance is not optional, or the learner simply learns to guess. No sign-up.

🕹️ How to play

1. Read the premises, then read the conclusion under the line.
2. Ask: which is wider, the premise or the conclusion?
3. Tap the right direction: from the general to the specific, or from the specific to the general.
4. Every argument you get first try counts for you.