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What does inductive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (logic) of, or relating to logical induction
  2. (physics) of, relating to, or arising from induction or inductance
  3. introductory or preparatory
  4. influencing; tending to induce or cause
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He understands only empirical, inductive psychology, despite the fact that it contains phenomenological truths.
And hence the proper way to arrive at such a criterion is, broadly speaking, inductive.
Upon occasion, Mill extolled all four of his inductive schemata as rules of proof of causal connection.
However, just as deduction entails an element of induction, the inductive process is likely to entail a modicum of deduction.
Moreover, in place of relativistic cosmology's inductive empiricism, Milne opted for a hypothetico-deductive rationalism.
This dual-function head was an inductive device, with a coil of wire wrapped around a toroidal armature.

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