inductive

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Now, every intuition is an anticipation of the future, resulting from only two processes: -- inductive or deductive reasoning, e.g., the chemist foreseeing a reaction; imagination, i.e.,

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or using logical induction: inductive reasoning.
  2. adjective Electricity Of or arising from inductance: inductive reactance.
  3. adjective Causing or influencing; inducing.
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  • Meaning: your argument against aliens is inductive, therefore not incontrovertible, and since I want to believe in aliens, I'm going to dismiss the argument no matter how overwhelming the evidence against aliens, and no matter how vanishingly small the chance of extraterrestrial abduction. —  Stupid Evil Bastard
  • I have a bunch of Metal Oxide resistors of the correct value and wattage that are supposed to be non-inductive, but I just don't know if they are appropriate for this use. —  eHam.net News
  • This method is inductive, and comparable to the scientist approach to the discovery of nature's truth. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • Magnetic-inductive (MI) technology was the dominant method for many years. —  Machine Design -
  • We Americans have spent a generation in experimenting with the inductive, the subjective method in education, and the result is, to all intents and purposes, a dismal failure. —  Flamsted quarries
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  1. = Old French and F. inductif = Provencal inductiu = Spanish Portuguese inductivo = Italian induttivo, from Late Latin inductivus, serving to induce or to infer, from Latin inducere, past participle inductus, induce, induct: see induce, induct.
 

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