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Definition of Inductions
1. induction [n] - See also: induction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inductions
Literary usage of Inductions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Principles by Herbert Spencer (1892)
"The inductions of Biology. " III. The Evolution of Life. Part IV. ... The inductions
of Sociology. " HI. The Domestic Relations. Vol. n. $2.00. Part IV. ..."
2. Inductive Logic by William Gay Ballantine (1896)
"PRIMARY inductions. AN Induction is a generalization, or an inference, based upon
propositions that state observed facts. The truth inferred may be general ..."
3. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1869)
"It lies not in making his inductions but in the selection of them; in choosing
from among all general propositions ascertained to be true, ..."
4. An Epitome of The Synthetic Philosophy by Herbert Spencer, Frederick Howard Collins (1890)
"CO-ORDINATION OP DATA AND inductions. 4756. In the " Data of Psychology," ...
In the "inductions of Psychology" we saw that the substance of Mind in its ..."
5. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by William Stebbing (1875)
"case (just as, even in deductive sciences, the ascertaining of the inductions is
easy, their combination to solve a problem hard) is not to the point: the ..."
6. Faith-healing: Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena by James Monroe Buckley (1892)
"inductions THE inductions from these cases, and from the fact that they are
constantly paralleled, are : (1) That subjective mental states, ..."
7. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The Abstractions, inductions, Deductions, and Experimental Discoveries of Science,
... All inductions have at last to be shaped and tied down by precise ..."
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