Synonyms for inductive
| Grammar : Adj, adv |
| Spell : in-duhk-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈdʌk tɪv |
Top 10 synonyms for inductive Other synonyms for the word inductive
- analytical
- anterior
- basic
- before
- beginning
- early
- elemental
- elementary
- empirical
- experimental
- from the latter
- in advance of
- in anticipation of
- incipient
- inducible
- inductive
- initial
- initiatory
- introductory
- logical
- opening
- original
- practical
- precautionary
- preceding
- precursory
- prefatory
- prelusive
- prep
- preparative
- preparing
- primal
- primary
- prior
- prior to
- proemial
- provisional
- rudimentary
- starting
- test
- trial
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for inductive
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