inductive

as inintroductory

as inpreliminary
as inpreparatory
as inprolegomenous
as inprolegomenous
as ina posteriori

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Synonyms for inductive

adj preliminary, first

Antonyms for inductive

More words related to inductive

a posteriori

adverb. involving reasoning from facts

introductory

adjective. preliminary, first

preliminary

adjective. introductory, initial

preparatory

adjective. introductory, basic

Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Old French inductif or directly from Late Latin inductivus, from induct-, past participle stem of inducere (see induce). As a term in logic, from 1764.

Example Sentences for inductive

The method of the Hippocratic writers is that known to-day as the ‘inductive’.

Sometimes they are truths arrived at by inductive processes.

It was a deductive and not an inductive process, by which he arrived at his theology.

What does it profit a man to discover The Inductive Method and to lose his own soul?

It was not, and could not have been, arrived at by any inductive reasoning.

Whewell's philosophy of the inductive sciences, remarks on, 422.

The second step in inductive reasoning is the making of an hypothesis.

The inductive enumeration is either of all cases or of some only.

If all reasoning is either deductive or inductive, this must be induction.

It argues from the known to the unknown; so do all the inductive sciences.