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Definition of Inductive
Inductive

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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Inductive Quotations

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 J. 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.
Muhammed Iqbal

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
Robert Nozick

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry Mayhew

Inductive Translations

inductive in German is induktiv
inductive in Spanish is inductivo


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