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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.


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Inductive logic conjectures that induction is valid, and then concludes that horizontal causation is true; whereas, induction can only be justified if causation i.
As we noted earlier, literature on the scholarship of teaching is relatively new and research approaches to it are more appropriately set in the context of the qualitative paradigm (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994), which uses inductive logic and typically builds theory from the ground up (Corbin & Strauss, 1990).
These grand theories are predicated on inductive logic and develop explanations for the rise of the welfare state by applying theoretical constructs to the experiences of a few nation states.
 
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