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The Oxford English Dictionary defines induction as “the process of inferring a general law or principle from the observations of particular instances.” This defines precisely what we would like to call inductive inference. On the other hand, we regard inductive reasoning as a more general concept than inductive inference, as a process of reassigning a probability (or credibility) to a law or proposition from the observation of particular instances.
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Li, M., Vitányi, P. (2019). Inductive Reasoning. In: An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11298-1_5
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