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An inductive argument is one whose premises are claimed to provide only some less-than-conclusive grounds for accepting the conclusion (Copi 1978; Hurley and Watson 2018).
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6 wrz 2004 · An inductive logic is a logic of evidential support. In a deductive logic, the premises of a valid deductive argument logically entail the conclusion, where logical entailment means that every logically possible state of affairs that makes the premises true must make the conclusion true as well.
6 wrz 2004 · An inductive logic is a system of evidential support that extends deductive logic to less-than-certain inferences. For valid deductive arguments the premises logically entail the conclusion, where the entailment means that the truth of the premises provides a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion.
10 mar 2021 · Inductive arguments whose premises give us a strong, even if defeasible, reason for accepting the conclusion are called, unsurprisingly, strong inductive arguments. In contrast, an inductive argument that does not provide a strong reason for accepting the conclusion are called weak inductive arguments.
Definition. Inductive arguments are reasoning processes where the premises provide some degree of support for the conclusion, leading to a probable but not guaranteed outcome.
10 mar 2021 · Inductive arguments are arguments intended to be judged by the inductive standard of, "Do the premises make the conclusion probable?" So, the strengths of inductive arguments range from very weak to very strong.
18 Deductive and Inductive Arguments. Knachel, Matthew, "Fundamental Methods of Logic" (2017). Philosophy Faculty Books. 1. http://dc.uwm.edu/phil_facbooks/1. As we noted earlier, there are different logics—different approaches to distinguishing good arguments from bad ones.
