Week 13-Post 1: Cause and Effect website

According to the website, http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/induc/causal.html, one of the most important concepts for inductive reasoning in your arguments is to argue with causation. This material seem new to me because I had no idea of making arguments with casual arguments which makes your inductive reasoning a lot stronger by using causation. This website helped me understand that casual arguments are closely related to the structure of inductive reasoning, but there is one difference from inductive reasoning and casual arguments. The website helped me understand that the implication is that there is no significant difference in inductive reasoning, but casual arguments imply that there is one significant difference and this is what makes causal arguments different from inductive arguments. The exercises helped me better understand casual arguments. For example, the first exercise asked what was the "commonality" of the five people getting sick at the picnic? The most reasonable answer and choice for me was that this five people eat the potato salad because these five people most have a cause for getting sick while other people at the picnic did not get sick. The difference for people who did not get sick at the picnic is that they did not eat the potato salad at the picnic.