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Inductive reasoning

noun
1.
Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.  Synonyms: generalisation, generalization, induction.






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"Inductive reasoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bacon—or for Bungay, a Great Unknown. I use Bungay as an endearing term for the mysterious being who was the Author if Francis Bacon was not. Friar Bungay was the rival of Friar Bacon, as the Unknown (if he was not Francis Bacon) is the rival of "the inventor of Inductive reasoning." ...
— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang

... necessary to inaugurate a New Departure. The well established facts of mental law show conclusively that subjective mind argues only deductively. It argues quite correctly from any given premises, but it cannot take the initiative in selecting the premises—that is the province of inductive reasoning which is essentially the function of the objective mind. But by the law of Auto-suggestion this discarnate individual has brought over his premises with him, which premises are the sum-total of his inductions made during objective life, the conception ...
— The Creative Process in the Individual • Thomas Troward

... Wilton had had any inductive reasoning in his composition at all, he would have been tremendously elated. A girl does not creep out to a distant cove at Marois Bay unless she is unhappy; and if Mary Campbell was unhappy she must be unhappy about him; and if she was unhappy about him all he had ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse



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