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Definition of Inductive reasoning

1. Noun. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

Definition of Inductive reasoning

1. Noun. The process of making inferences based upon observed patterns, or simple repetition. Often used in reference to predictions about what ''will happen'' or ''does happen,'' based upon what ''has happened.'' ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inductive Reasoning

Literary usage of Inductive reasoning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"DEDUCTIVE AND inductive reasoning When you are sure ... But in natural science you are said to employ " inductive reasoning ". The process has already been ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1871)
"ARTICLE III —THE GROUND OF CONFIDENCE IN inductive reasoning. I. THE writers on the deductive syllogism have hard work to defend it from the charge of being ..."

3. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"inductive reasoning.—If the foregoing estimate of the nature and relations of what is ordinarily known as deductive reasoning be accepted, the necessity is ..."

4. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"The Subjective Mind incapable of inductive reasoning. — Its Processes always Deductive or Syllogistic. — Its Premises the Result of Suggestion. ..."

5. The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology: On the Basis of "Outlines of Psychology" by James Sully (1897)
"... some general principle to a particular conclusion. (a) NATURE OF INDUCTIVE REASONING. The process of inductive reasoning may be defined as the setting ..."

6. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1821)
"inductive reasoning. — Analysis and Synthesis. — Essential difference between Legitimate aud Hypothetical Theories. I «•**•*! * HAVE had occasion to observe ..."

7. Paragraph-writing: A Rhetoric for Colleges by Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny (1909)
"We noticed that, in inductive reasoning, an inference is drawn from a number ... It is evident that inductive reasoning, from the very fact that it dares to ..."

8. References for Literary Workers: With Introductions to Topics and Questions by Henry Matson (1892)
"inductive reasoning. 251. Is inductive reasoning the best method of arriving ... Has the relative importance of inductive reasoning, as a method of arriving ..."

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