Inductive And Deductive Reasoning Quotes & Sayings

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is false, she may be able to accomplish her goal without the use of inductive inferences.... When a scientist collects experimental data, her aim might be to show that a particular theory...is false. She will have to resort to inductive reasoning.... So Popper's attempt to show that science can get by without induction does not succeed. — Samir Okasha

No discussion of logic is complete without a refresher course in the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. By its strictest definition, inductive reasoning proves a general principle - your idea worth spreading - by highlighting a group of specific events, trends, or observations. In contrast, deductive reasoning builds up to a specific principle - again, your idea worth spreading - through a chain of increasingly narrow statements. — Jeremey Donovan

The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. — William John Wills

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists. — Jerry Saltz

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed — Christopher Paolini

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical — John Steinbeck

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student. — Robert Aris Willmott

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers. — Christiane Northrup

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself. — John D. MacDonald

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day. — Mason Cooley

death could stop a lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship. Caleb — Jennifer L. Armentrout

For hours, they wrote back and forth, a conversation punctuated by short periods of waiting, where Lucy held her breath and kept watch over her phone, resenting the constraints of technology, the limits of distance. — Jennifer E. Smith