inductive reasoning

English Thesaurus

1. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	colligation,
definition	:	the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	induce,
definition	:	reason or establish by induction (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	extrapolate, generalise, generalize, infer,
definition	:	draw from specific cases for more general cases (verb.communication)

derivation	:	induce,
definition	:	reason or establish by induction (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	extrapolate, generalise, generalize, infer,
definition	:	draw from specific cases for more general cases (verb.communication)