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What does inductive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (logic) of, or relating to logical induction
  2. (physics) of, relating to, or arising from induction or inductance
  3. introductory or preparatory
  4. influencing; tending to induce or cause
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And hence the proper way to arrive at such a criterion is, broadly speaking, inductive.
However, just as deduction entails an element of induction, the inductive process is likely to entail a modicum of deduction.
We do tend to dismiss offhand such phenomena as human artifacts, and because of good theoretical and inductive preconceptions.
The other major hypothesis invokes particle charging interactions of either an inductive or microphysical nature.
Moreover, in place of relativistic cosmology's inductive empiricism, Milne opted for a hypothetico-deductive rationalism.
He understands only empirical, inductive psychology, despite the fact that it contains phenomenological truths.

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