inductive
Speech parts
1. inductive - Adjective
2. inductive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.
Tending to induce or cause.
Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.
Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.
Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.