inductively
- adverb
- /ɪnˈdʌktɪvli/
- A particular concept is studied inductively by examining examples and non-examples.
- analyze inductively
- derive inductively
- data analyzed inductively
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Examples
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Knowledge can readily be acquired in two generic ways: inductively and deductively, as was mentioned earlier under teaching strategy.
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Scientists often utilize observations to draw conclusions about phenomena inductively, developing general theories based on specific instances.
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Categories were studied inductively as themes of analysis emerged from the data.
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The interview data were inductively analyzed and compared between the male and female athletes.
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Using constant comparison, the main points identified on the 3 x 5 cards were inductively grouped into common themes.
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First, the coders reviewed the articles of several issues of the journal and generated categories inductively based on their general impressions.
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Factors identified by these teachers as contributing to their motivation, learning, and sustaining of innovations were analyzed inductively.
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In this way, the teacher uses her clinical experience and judgment to inductively design instructional programs—child by child.
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The students' comments from the questionnaire were inductively analyzed using the constant comparative method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967).
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All data were analyzed inductively, reflective of interpretivist research (Bogdan & Bilden, 1998; Maxwell, 1996).
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
Using careful thought and signs instead of seeing something directly
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inductively comes from Latin in- 'into' and ducere 'to lead', the same root as conduct. To reason inductively is to be 'led' by several examples into a general idea, so the origin shows why it means going from facts to a rule.