Definition of inductivism in English:
inductivism
noun ɪnˈdʌktɪvɪz(ə)minˈdəktəˌvizəm
mass nounThe use of or preference for inductive methods of reasoning, especially in science.
Example sentencesExamples
- The presence of both an element of deductivism and inductivism (the feedback loop) is indicative of the positivist foundations of quantitative research.
- Hume's analysis has been interpreted as reinforcing Baconian inductivism.
- For, unlike determinate abstraction, empiricist and rationalist abstraction is characterised by both inductivism and deductivism.
- The author ignores another problem with inductivism, widely elaborated in philosophy.
Derivatives
noun & adjective
Put bluntly, he is an old-fashioned empiricist and inductivist.
Example sentencesExamples
- It may give a more reasonable account of rule learning than either structuralist or inductivist conceptions of learning.
- On the inductivist's view the link between wincing and groaning, on the one hand, and the inner experience of pain, on the other, is a merely contingent one.
- Furthermore, even if psychoanalysis is not a ‘science’ given some agreed upon scientific inductivist canons, it may nevertheless be more or less true.
- It's not so much that Popper disagreed with Carnap and other inductivists as that he restated their views in a bizarre and cumbersome terminology.
- It is mapped onto the restrictor of the generic quantifier, hence an inductivist reading is available.