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INDUCTIVE REASONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inductive reasoning mean?
• INDUCTIVE REASONING (noun)
The noun INDUCTIVE REASONING has 1 sense:
1. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Familiarity information: INDUCTIVE REASONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
generalisation; generalization; induction; inductive reasoning
Hypernyms ("inductive reasoning" is a kind of...):
colligation (the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis)
Context examples
“Yes, gentlemen,” said he, “it is the most famous pearl now existing in the world, and it has been my good fortune, by a connected chain of inductive reasoning, to trace it from the Prince of Colonna’s bedroom at the Dacre Hotel, where it was lost, to the interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which were manufactured by Gelder & Co., of Stepney.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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