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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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Upon occasion, Mill extolled all four of his inductive schemata as rules of proof of causal connection.
Although similar to other inductive processes, this methodology differs in that it emerges from the discipline of sociology.
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.
The other major hypothesis invokes particle charging interactions of either an inductive or microphysical nature.
And hence the proper way to arrive at such a criterion is, broadly speaking, inductive.

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