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The traditional method of induction, both enumerative and eliminative, is of a qualitative nature. It leads to the discovery of qualitative laws of different types: causal, structural, evolutionary, etc. Some related methods, more important for the sciences, are of a quantitative nature. Statistical reasoning leads to the discovery of empirical statistical laws. Interpolation and extrapolation of measurements leads to the discovery of functional dependencies between directly measured magnitudes. These methods can be considered to be generalizations of induction. They can be called inductive methods in a broader sense.
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Krajewski, W. (1981). On Hypotheses and Hypotheticism. In: Agassi, J., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Scientific Philosophy Today. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8462-2_5
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