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inductive reasoning
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Noun1.inductive reasoning - reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
generalization, induction, generalisation
colligation - the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
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They consider competing views, make bottom-up inductive arguments from an array of facts and doubt the power of Big Ideas.
Why Pundits Always Get Their Predictions Wrong by Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotelian fables, serve as the beginning of an inductive argument to a general truth and thus are philosophy in the first three of the above senses.
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Important evidence that would undermine an inductive argument is excluded from consideration.
Don't fall for defense fallacies by Freeman, Michael D. / Trial
 
 
 
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