Inductive reasoning - Yesterday's inductive reasoning

Japanese: 帰納的推論 - きのうてきすいろん
Inductive reasoning - Yesterday's inductive reasoning

...This is a fact which has been implicitly or explicitly acknowledged by all logicians.
[Inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning]
Now, when there is an inference based on a factual knowledge of the world that leads to a knowledge of the world, we can distinguish between two types of inference according to the relationship between the premise and the conclusion. One is called inductive inference (induction), which derives more general laws from a collection of more specific and simple cases.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "inductive reasoning" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これは陰に陽に,すべての論理学者によって承認されてきた事実なのであった。
[帰納的推論と演繹的推論]
 ところで,世界についての事実認識を基礎に置いて,これまた世界についての認識にいたる推論がある場合,われわれは前提と結論の関係に応じて推論を2種類に区別することができる。一つは,より個別的で単純な事例の集りから,より一般的な法則を導くところの,帰納的推論(帰納)と呼ばれるものである。…

※「帰納的推論」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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