Reasoning by Sign
One concept that I found difficult to understand at first was reasoning by sign. Initially, when reading it, I assumed that it meant reasoning through reading one's body language or indicative expressions, symbols, etc. Although I was partially correct, it confused me how when I clicked on the link on our instructor's blog page, I was linked to a website where I couldn't find the label "Reasoning by sign" but only "Argument by Sign". After reading the definition, I had a general understanding but it was still vague. So afterwards I looked for more information concerning reasoning by sign and stumbled on this link for more information and it really helped me streamline the definition of the subject. Also, I looked at everyone else's blogs on our student site and the examples only helped clarify it's meaning. Therefore, reasoning by sign is basically when someone associates a certain item, expression, factor with a person, event, place and assumes things based on their past encounter with the item, expression, or factor. I.e You have clown shoes and a red nose, so you must be a clown.
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