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inductive reasoning

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Noun1.inductive reasoning - reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
colligation - the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis

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deduction, deduction resting, moreover, on very insufficient and long-antiquated bases of observation, and to substitute for it as the method of the future, unlimited fresh observation and experiment and inductive reasoning.
"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.
Mr Pickering quivered with combined fear and excitement and inductive reasoning.
 
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