TFY Chapter 11 Summary

1. Inductive reasoning is the process of thinking that you used in describing a fruit, vegetable, or tool when you began by not knowing the identity of the covered object.
2. The inductive method is also called the empirical or scientific method. It appeared in the reading by Samuel Scudder.
3. Induction reasons from evidence about some members of a class in order to form a conclusion about all members of that class.
4. Induction can be done through sensory observation, enumeration, analogous reasoning, causal reasoning, and from pattern recognition.
5. A conclusion delivered through inductive reasoning is called a hypothesis and is always less certain that the evidence itself.
6. Inductive reasoning is used as a method for obtaining information when is would be impossible to examine all the data available. This is done by taking statistical or by extrapolations.
7. The five basic rules for evaluating the reliability of hypotheses based on the statistical samplings.