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What does inductive reasoning mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
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There are several major kinds of inductive reasoning, including causal inference, categorical inference, and analogical inference.
Many less theoretical instances of inductive reasoning also fail to be captured by enumerative induction.
The answer lies in a crucial distinction between deductive and inductive reasoning.
Neither deductive nor inductive reasoning can account for the way in which we immediately see that such principles are true.
At about the time the Bayesian logicist idea was developing, an alternative conception of probabilistic inductive reasoning was also emerging.
He sought to reform all knowledge and thus create a new learning, and he was a firm advocate of experimental method and inductive reasoning.

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