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inductive

reasoning from specific observations toward a general conclusion

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Six example sentences with inductive, each labelled with its topic.

  • The spam filter is inductive at heart, drawing a general rule about junk mail from thousands of individual messages users flagged.

    Technology

  • Darwin's method was inductive: years of notes on finches, barnacles, and pigeons came first, and the general theory followed.

    Science

  • Twelve trips through Portugal gave her an inductive rule: any cafe crowded with locals at noon serves the best fish in town.

    Travel

  • Hume asked what justifies inductive reasoning, since the sun rising every past morning does not prove it will rise tomorrow.

    Philosophy

  • Toddlers are inductive learners, meeting three friendly dogs and concluding that every dog they see wants to play.

    Psychology

  • The sales manager's rule was inductive: after five years of data, every deal that stalled in March closed in June.

    Business

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