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Inductive in sentence

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About 200 years before, Francis Bacon and then, later, Isaac Newton, had proposed an inductive scientific method.
They wrote books and articles promoting inductive method in all the sciences that were widely read by natural philosophers, university students and members of the public.
A lot of science isn't deductive at all, it's actually inductive.
Besides inductive science, scientists also often participate in modeling.
Using this sort of inductive reasoning, we can see that the pattern will repeat no matter how many prisoners you add.
The brain is thus an inductive machine that predicts the future based on finding similarities, at many different levels, between the present and the past.
While there is certainly value in collecting data (via, for example, randomized control trials), there is also a need for deductive and inductive reasoning, guided by common sense – and not just on the part of experts.
Inductive reasoning, too, is vital to reach certain kinds of knowledge.
In particular, the rise of emerging markets has challenged traditional Western deductive and inductive logic.
By inductive reasoning, if we know the cause and effects, we can infer the principles.
As Bertrand Russell cautioned about the dangers of such inductive reasoning, in The Problems of Philosophy, “The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”