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Also known as induction, inductive logic, inductive analysis, solving a problem starting with what you know already

method of reasoning in which a body of observations is synthesized to hypothesize a general principle

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Inductive reasoning is a method where you observe many specific examples and use those observations to develop a general rule or principle that explains them. It matters because it's how we often learn patterns from experience and form working theories about how the world works, though conclusions reached this way aren't guaranteed to be true.

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Subclass of
reasoning
Part of
logic
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topic's main category
Category:Inductive reasoning
Commons category
Inductive reasoning
different from
magnetic flux density
has characteristic
generalization
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Induktion är inom vetenskapsteori en slutledningmetod som härleder generella slutsatser utifrån ett antal enskilda fall. Utifrån empiriska erfarenheter inducerar man en sannolik slutsats. Inom naturvetenskap används metoden i kombination med deduktion och falsifikation.[källa behövs]

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