Answer "true" or "false" to the following statements:
1. In an inductive argument, it is intended that the conclusion contain more information than the premises.
2. In a deductive argument, the conclusion is not supposed to contain more information than the premises.
3. The form of argumentation the arguer uses may allow one to determine whether an argument is inductive or deductive.
4. The actual strength of the link between premises and conclusion may allow one to determine whether an argument is inductive or deductive.
5. A geometrical proof is an example of an inductive argument.
6. Most arguments based on statistical reasoning are deductive.
7. If the conclusion of an argument follows merely from the definition of a word used in a premise, the argument is deductive.
8. An argument that draws a conclusion about a thing based on that thing's similarity to something else is a deductive argument.
9. An argument that draws a conclusion that something is true because someone has said that it is, is a deductive argument.
10. An argument that presents two alternatives and eliminates one, leaving the other as the conclusion, is an inductive argument.
11. An argument that proceeds from knowledge of a cause to knowledge of an effect is an inductive argument.
12. If an argument contains the phrase "it definitely follows that," then we know for certain that the argument is deductive.
13. An argument that predicts what will happen in the future, based on what has happened in the past, is an inductive argument.
14. Inductive arguments always proceed from the particular to the general.
15. Deductive arguments always proceed from the general to the particular.