1. inductive - Adjective
2. inductive - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe 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. Alfred North Whitehead
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method. C. S. Lewis
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. Jean-Baptiste Say
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. Henry Mayhew
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. William John Wills
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. Muhammad Iqbal