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Inductive Reasoning |
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Inductive reasoning The attempt to use information about a specific situation to draw a conclusion. Inductive Reasoning A way of forming reasonable conclusions by gathering evidence and then forming principles based upon them. For example, if one wishes to find out how a stock will perform, one gathers as much evidence on that stock as possible and makes a conclusion based on that, regardless of one's feelings or suppositions beforehand. The advantage of inductive reasoning is that its evidence offers applicability to "real world" scenarios; however, a disadvantage is that one's evidence may be inaccurate or anecdotal. It is sometimes difficult to know how much evidence is needed to justify coming to a general conclusion. See also: Deductive reasoning, Analogy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He works through informal logic, including meanings and definition of language and fallacies, formal logic, including categorical propositions and syllogisms, propositional logic, natural deduction in propositional logic and predicate logic, inductive logic, including analogies, legal and moral reasoning, causality and Mill's methods, probability, statistical reasoning, and hypothetical and scientific reasoning. Freiburg, Germany) develops a general framework of probabilistic inductive logic programming as a foundation for his approach to statistical relational learning, which incorporates the logical concepts of objects and relations among objects into Bayesian networks. is a British Mathematician known for his work on mathematical logic, in particular uncertain reasoning and inductive logic with an emphasis on rationality and common sense principles. |
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