Inductive Reasoning
- ️Wed Jun 12 2019
Abstract
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.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Ming Li
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Vitányi
Authors
- Ming Li
You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar
- Paul Vitányi
You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar
Corresponding author
Correspondence to Ming Li .
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Ming Li and Paul Vitányi
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Li, M., Vitányi, P. (2019). Inductive Reasoning. In: An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11298-1_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11298-1_5
Published: 12 June 2019
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11297-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-11298-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)