单词 | inductive |
释义 | inductive (once / 4022 pages) 1adj 2adj Inductive is a way to describe something that leads to something else, so when applied to reasoning it just means you collect information and draw conclusions from what you observe. Logical types may already be familiar with the word inductive as it relates to reasoning. Inductive reasoning is a way to make sense of things by making specific observations and then drawing broad conclusions based on those observations. For example, if you break out in hives every time you eat something with buckwheat flour but you’re fine eating other types of flour, you might use inductive reasoning to conclude you get hives from the buckwheat flour. WORD FAMILYinductive: inductively+/induct: inducted, inductee, inducting, induction, inductive, inducts/inductee: inductees/induction: inductions, self-induction USAGE EXAMPLESThe intelligence community sometimes makes mistakes, but it strives to create a fact-based, inductive view of the world. Washington Post(Nov 14, 2016) Another example: the iPhones still lack wireless or inductive charging. The Verge(Sep 13, 2016) Even the fact that Zika causes microcephaly is something we have had to arrive at inductively; lab data is still not quite there. Slate(Jun 20, 2016) 1 1adj inducing or influencing; leading on " inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton Syn inducive causative producing an effect 2adj arising from inductance 2inductive reactance adj of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion inductive reasoning Syn|Ant synthetic, synthetical of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts a posterioriinvolving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes deductive involving inferences from general principles analytic, analyticalof a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience a prioriinvolving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact deduciblecapable of being deduced illativeexpressing or preceding an inference illative, inferentialresembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference inferentialof reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion |
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