##  [Principle of Induction](/index.php/principle-induction) 

  ##  [Principle of Induction](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/principle-induction-0) 

  

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Definition

An epistemic rule that licenses forming general or probabilistic beliefs about unobserved cases on the basis of observed regularities; it treats observed uniformities or stable patterns as evidence that similar unobserved instances will conform, while not guaranteeing deductive certainty.