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Inductive adj.

Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; usually followed by to. "A brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve."

Tending to induce or cause. (R.) "They may be... inductive of credibility."

Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.

(Physics)

(a)

Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.

(b)

Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as, certain substances have a great inductive capacity.

Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction.

Inductive philosophy or Inductive method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction.

Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc.

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"Inductive" Quotes from Famous Books

... 6. The special inductive feature of the work consists in calling attention, by query and suggestion, to the most important phenomena and inferences. This plan is ...

— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell

... entrance of the catacombs, and he had little doubt that he had now found the place of the main descent into the Catacombs of St. Callixtus. The discovery was a great one; for near the main entrance had been the burial-place of the popes, and of St. Cecilia. De Rossi laid the results of his inductive process of archaeological reasoning before the pope, who immediately gave orders for the purchase of the vigna, and directions that excavations ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various

... the schoolmen as of a very deep significance. We believe further that the real secret of the failure of mediaevalism to extend its Knowledge of Nature was not so much a preference for deductive over inductive methods as the failure to realise that Nature was a ...

— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip

... which have a greater affinity with this type-species than with any others, form the genus, and are ranged about about it, deviating from it in various directions and different degrees."—WHEWELL, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, ...

— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley

... unforeseen crisis. So, too, from a present habit of thought, much may be surmised as to what has been done and suffered in the past; and though little was known about Jeanne-Marie, some inferences might have been drawn concerning her former life, had any of her neighbours been skilled in the inductive method, or been sufficiently interested in the woman to study her character closely. But in fact they cared very little about her. It is true that when she had first come into the village, there had been many conjectures about ...

— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter

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