The Cause and effect website is an extremely helpful website that assisted me with the understanding of the inductive reasoning and the complex types of arguments and claims. The explanation starts with inductive claims that were in the hidden inside the arguments. The website talks about the claims seems to fit the pattern of an inductive argument, because none of them seems based on observation or experience. But, in fact, they do fit that pattern. The bicyclist's lawyer, for example, is actually arguing that:Normally the bicyclist would have continued in the bike lane, but in this instance he swerved into the lane of traffic.The only significant difference between "normally" and "in this case" is the presence of the illegally parked truck.Therefore, the truck caused the bicyclist to swerve. Another topic that was useful was is strength of a causal argument, which then, relies on three factors:how acceptable or demonstrable the implied comparison is (for example, do we think that there is a basic similarlity in most respects between the circumstances of this accident and those of the many other times bicycles and cars have traveled on this street safely;how likely the case for causation seems to be (for example, do we think that a bicycle swerving into an car's lane can cause an accident?how credible the "only significant difference" or "only significant commonality" claim is (for example, do we believe that the illegally parked truck is the only significant difference between this case and the many other times bicycles and cars went down that street without an accident?.
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