{"id":8203,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/induction_-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:09","slug":"induction_-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/induction_-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Induction (philosophy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A form of reasoning, also known as empirical induction, in which a general law or principle (i.e., a generalization) is inferred from particular instances of observation. &nbsp;As a scientific method, it is attributed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/bacon\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/bacon\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francis Bacon<\/a> (1561-1626) and subsequently criticized as being logically invalid by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelogician.net\/6_reflect\/6_Book_1\/6_book_1.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.thelogician.net\/6_reflect\/6_Book_1\/6_book_1.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Hume<\/a> (1711-1776).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"deduction\">Deduction<\/a>, <a href=\"fluid_intelligence\">Fluid intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"hypothetico-deductive_method\">Hypothetico-deductive method<\/a>, <a href=\"inferences_-reading-\">Inferences (reading)<\/a>, <a href=\"logical_reasoning\">Logical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"principle\">Principle<\/a>, Raven&#8217;s Progressive Matrices (RPM) <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A form of reasoning, also known as empirical induction, in which a general law or principle (i.e., a generalization) is inferred from particular instances of observation. &nbsp;As a scientific method, it is attributed to Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and subsequently criticized as being logically invalid by David Hume (1711-1776).&nbsp; See Deduction, Fluid intelligence, Hypothetico-deductive method, Inferences &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/induction_-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Induction (philosophy)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}