David B. - 16 July 2007 03:48 AM
Sure, how about some words of encouragement…
“Come on, Tim!”
(Apologies to everyone who doesn’t get this.)
Dear David B,
Thank you for those kind words and thank you for the math at the end of your reply as well, because that is what I am thinking is going to change my idea into a reality.
I am going to prove my idea based on other people mistakes with inductive reasoning in the weeks to come. My goal is to give each one I find a number, then we can add them up and see what we come up with.
I really don’t think these things up, they just come to me naturally.
Inductive reasoning
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Inductive reasoning is the complement of deductive reasoning. For other article subjects named induction, see Induction.
Induction or inductive reasoning, sometimes called inductive logic, is the process of reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed to support the conclusion but do not ensure it. It is used to ascribe properties or relations to types based on tokens (i.e., on one or a small number of observations or experiences); or to formulate laws based on limited observations of recurring phenomenal patterns. Induction is used, for example, in using specific propositions such as:
This ice is cold.
A billiard ball moves when struck with a cue.
...to infer general propositions such as:
All ice is cold.
All billiard balls struck with a cue move.
Thank you,
Tim