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Quotes About Induction

Four words that are easy to grasp capture the medium of television: induction, seduction, deduction, and reduction. Take a good look at those four words, and it is easy to see how we have found ourselves playing mind games in a world of images, running counter to truth and redemption.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Subjects' unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.
~ Daniel Kahneman
MID TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.
~ Douglas Coupland
Sherlock Holmes used the process of induction—not deduction.
~ Douglas Preston
There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
~ Joe Walsh
The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.
~ Ralph Kiner
I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
~ Cynthia Nixon
Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
~ Stevie Wonder
This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.
~ David Deutsch
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
~ George Santayana
These were well-recognized code words in the mystery cults, which meant the same thing there as they clearly do for Clement here: 'babes' were Christians not yet inducted into the higher mysteries, while the 'mature' had been, and thus knew teachings that other Christians did not. But Clement also indicates in the above quotes that there were also teachings that 'babes' were privy to that non-Christians (the 'profane') were not to be told.
~ Richard Carrier
Stanley's breakthrough came in studying the Siemens system. He realized, he said, that if he could make an induction coil—a "transformer," he called it now—wired in parallel rather than in series, each coil would operate independently. That arrangement would keep the current steady whatever the demand and even if a component failed.
~ Richard Rhodes
The conclusion that we were misled by our senses clearly involves several faculties: memory, induction…and sense perception itself
~ Alvin Plantinga
Faraday's principle of induction,
~ Richard Phillips
For that we'll need a focused subspace wave packet that will induce a signal in normal space. You can almost think of it as Faraday's induction principle applied across a subspace to normal space interface.
~ Richard Phillips
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
~ Andy Hargreaves
mothers are not informed enough to know that this is not a good idea, and that any woman who has the right information would not want to have her baby induced.
~ Jennifer Block
Thus empiricism directed attention away from abstract principles to the data of experience. Hence, while the philosophers of the pre-Enlightenment period favoured the geometric method, reasoning deductively from first principles, their successors worked by induction, first observing particular details and arriving eventually at general truths.
~ Ritchie Robertson
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
~ Francis Bacon
One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true.
~ Alan F. Chalmers
I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.
~ Shannon Sharpe
I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.
~ Chris Long
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
~ Henry Mayhew