A Class Room Logic / Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

by George Hastings McNair

(15) A fact as opposed to phenomenon is something accomplished. A phenomenon is something shown.

(16) A method-whole is any subdivision of the matter for instruction which leads to a generalization.

(17) Method is an orderly procedure according to a recognized system of rules and principles.

As the term is commonly used it includes not only the arrangement of the subject matter for instruction but the mode of presenting the same to the mind.

(18) Induction is the process of proceeding from the less general to the more general.

Deduction is the process of proceeding from the more general to the less general.

(19) The terms induction and deduction may have reference to forms of reasoning or to methods of teaching.

The inductive method is the method of deriving a general truth from individual instances.

The deductive method is the method of applying a general truth to individual instances.

The inductive method is objective, while the deductive method is subjective. Induction is the method of discovery; deduction is the method of instruction.