Inductive Reasoning

The Oxford English Dictionary defines induction as “the process of inferring a general law or principle from the observations of particular instances.” This defines precisely what we would like to call inductive inference. On the other hand, we regard inductive reasoning as a more general concept than inductive inference, as a process of reassigning a probability (or credibility) to a law or proposition from the observation of particular instances.

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1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

   Ming Li

2. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

   Paul Vitányi

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