Antonyms for inductive

Grammar : Adj, adv

Spell : in-duhk-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈdʌk tɪv

Definition of inductive

Origin : early 15c., from Old French inductif or directly from Late Latin inductivus, from induct-, past participle stem of inducere (see induce). As a term in logic, from 1764.

As in introductory : adj preliminary, first
As in preliminary : adj introductory, initial
As in preparatory : adj introductory, basic
As in prolegomenous : adj preliminary
As in prolegomenous : adj introductory
As in a posteriori : adv involving reasoning from facts

Example sentences :

The method of the Hippocratic writers is that known to-day as the ‘inductive’.
Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various

Sometimes they are truths arrived at by inductive processes.
Extract from : « Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism » by F. V. N. Painter

It was a deductive and not an inductive process, by which he arrived at his theology.
Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong

What does it profit a man to discover The Inductive Method and to lose his own soul?
Extract from : « The Lost Art of Reading » by Gerald Stanley Lee

It was not, and could not have been, arrived at by any inductive reasoning.
Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe

Whewell's philosophy of the inductive sciences, remarks on, 422.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 » by Various

The second step in inductive reasoning is the making of an hypothesis.
Extract from : « Your Mind and How to Use It » by William Walker Atkinson

The inductive enumeration is either of all cases or of some only.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 » by Various

If all reasoning is either deductive or inductive, this must be induction.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 5 » by Various

It argues from the known to the unknown; so do all the inductive sciences.
Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson

Synonyms for inductive

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