Construction Quote by Auguste Comte

“We may put it in this way: Deduction depends on Induction, if general propositions are only known to us through the facts: Induction depends…

— Carveth Read

“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real world is…

— Rich Jolly

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

— John Stuart Mill

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

— Karl Popper

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.”

— Morris Kline

“Since the whole point of inductive reasoning is to draw sweeping assumptions based on limited evidence, it is an outstanding machine for generating stereotypes.…

— Kathryn Schulz

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each…

— Frank Herbert