Inductive reasoning, the logic flows in the opposite direction, from the specific to the general.
Inductive reasoning uses specific observations to construct general scientific principles.
For example, if poodles have hair, and terriers have hair, and every dog that you observe has hair, then you may conclude that all dogs have hair. Inductive reasoning leads to generalizations that can be tested.
Inductive reasoning first became important to science in the 1600s in Europe, when Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and others began to use the results of particular experiments to infer general principles about how the world operates.
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