In such case, it will be of no importance whether we reason from particulars to generals, or from generals to particulars.
When we reason from a general law or principle, we are in truth reasoning from a number of instances represented by It.
Mr. Mill says, that 'Not only may we reason from particulars to particulars, without passing through generals, but we perpetually do so reason.
Thus we are first to reason from effect to cause, in seeing the order of that which has already happened; and then, from those known causes, to reason forwards, so as to conceive that which is to come to pass in time.
We recognize this principle when we reason from effect to cause--when we ascend from the creation up to the Creator.
Thus, I reason from what I know to what I do not know, from my knowledge of the actual world as it is, up to God's foreknowledge respecting it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reason from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
