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Kitcher takes this to be a defense of our adoption of "the inductive practices and principles" that we actually use.
Some have criticized this account as giving too much weight to our actual inductive practices (Stich 1990).
One solution to the problem, associated with Peter Strawson (1952), is that "adopting the inductive practices and principles that we do is constitutive of our concept of rationality".
Although it seems to be a meaningful question whether there is such a justification for our inductive practices, David Hume argues that there can be no such justification (Hume [1739 40] 2000; see the discussion of Hume in the entry on the probelm of induction).
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It gives greater weight to homogenous state descriptions than to heterogeneous ones, thus 'rewarding' uniformity among the individuals in accordance with putatively reasonable inductive practice.
The internet and the information revolution may finally offer the opportunity to use and develop inductive learning practices and information based social inquiry in ways Pragmatic philosophers envisioned a hundred years ago, while the recent rise of connectionist and cognitive architecture works provides a concrete context for such developments.
But if the general practice of making inductive inferences is reasonable, some forms of that practice are more reasonable than others.
Comparisons of the institutional approaches with the approaches during teaching practice confirm the importance of an inductive approach in which different practice experiences, systematically aimed at making the students restructure their conceptual frameworks of learning and instruction, are used for reflection.
A combination of a deductive and an inductive approach is common in practice [ 22, 23].
While this combination of deductive and inductive coding is not standard practice, per se, the evaluation team believed it to be warranted given the study's key evaluation questions.
With an inductive design, this research studies change communication practices in two different case contexts.
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