Week 4; Post 2

An inductive argument that I found myself involved in this week was between myself and my grandma. She and I were talking on the phone and she asked me how long after my fiancé and I get married will we start having children. I told her that we were thinking of not having any children. She seemed absolutely appalled by my answer and couldn't seem to understand how a married couple would not have any children. To her, after getting married she would expect that we would have children. She assumed because me and my fiance are getting married (the premises) that we were going to have children (the conclusion). This argument between my grandma and I was an inductive argument because she looked at the premises, that I am getting married, and drew her own conclusion, that I would want to have children. Inductive arguments can be very tricky because they rely on assumptions rather than real facts.