Sentence examples for inductive argument from inspiring English sources

According to McTaggart, we need an argument for the rationality of induction, and such an argument will not be an inductive argument.

But a good inductive argument requires getting as close as we can to this ideal.

In an inductive argument (e.g., Most humans do not live for 100 years; Socrates is human; therefore, Socrates will not live for 100 years), the premises only make the conclusion probable.

Appealing to an inductive argument would be unacceptably circular.

We prove Theorem 2 by an inductive argument.

This result is proven by using an inductive argument.

As is inevitable in almost all discussions of complicated political topics, Taylor and his critics are employing inductive arguments.

As regards inductive arguments, it would be odd to find a metaphysician contending, as, for example, historians regularly do, that p is true and q is true and therefore it is reasonable to conclude that r is true.

Swinburne distinguishes between two varieties of inductive arguments: those that show that the conclusion is more probable than not (what he terms a correct P-inductive argument) and those that further increase the probability of the conclusion (what he terms a correct C-inductive argument).

(1) It should tell us which enumerative inductive arguments should count as good inductive arguments rather than as inductive fallacies.

Distinctions can be drawn between different inductive arguments.