16. OUTLINE.
INDUCTIVE REASONING.
(1) Inductive and Deductive Reasoning Distinguished.
(2) The “Inductive Hazard.”
Essential in world’s progress.
Cultivated and regulated in school.
(3) Complexity of the Problem of Induction.
(4) Various Conceptions of Induction.
Quotations from prominent authorities.
(5) Induction and Deduction Contiguous Processes.
(6) Induction an Assumption.
A mode of inference; A method.
(7) Universal Causation.
Law stated and illustrated.
Conditions all induction.
(8) Uniformity of Nature.
Defined and illustrated.
Conditions all induction.
Empirical.
(9) Inductive Assumptions Justified.
(10) Three Forms of Inductive Research.
(1) Enumeration (2) Analogy (3) Analysis.
Illustrated.
Conditions determine form followed.
(11) Induction by Simple Enumeration.
Defined and illustrated.
Outcome threefold—these illustrated.
(12) Induction by Analogy.
Two conceptions.
Analogy by type or example. Illustrations representative.
Error of analogy.
Suggestiveness of analogy.
Value of analogy.
Requirements of a true analogy. Three.
(13) Induction by Analysis.
Importance.
Defined and illustrated.
(14) Perfect Induction.
Defined and illustrated.
Its use.
Method of Socrates.
(15) Traduction.
Defined and illustrated.
Three methods compared.