Induction vs Inductionism - What's the difference?
induction | inductionism |
An act of inducting.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
# A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
An act of inducing.
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# (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
# (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
# (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
# (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
# (biology) In developmental biology, the development of a feature from part of a formerly homogenous field of cells in response to a morphogen whose source determines the feature's position and extent.
(lb) The process of inducing the birth process.
(obsolete) An introduction.
* Massinger
As nouns the difference between induction and inductionism
is that induction is an act of inducting while inductionism is the use of induction in scientific reasoning.induction
English
Noun
(en noun)- I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
- These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
- This is but an induction : I will daw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.