inductive reasoning

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   reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

   Synonymsgeneralizationgeneralisationinduction

   Broadercolligation

Questions about inductive reasoning

What does inductive reasoning mean?

inductive reasoning means "reasoning from detailed facts to general principles".

What is another word for inductive reasoning?

Close synonyms include generalization, generalisation, induction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inductive reasoning a common word?

inductive reasoning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.