INDUCTION (Principle of)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1642 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “The future will in certain respects resemble the past”(J. BRYANT, 1991, p. 150)
This means that induction, as a meaning creation process , implies a hidden belief in coherent and stable correspondances between some observations , stored memories and reference frames
BRYANT expresses this as follows: “…induction may be explained as the product of neural linkage between engrams , or, in psychological terms, as associations between ideas”(p. 117 and 150-51)
This is very different from the deduction process which in BRYANT terms“…is the act of making an engram generalization from the premises ”or…“ the process or deriving statements (called deductive conclusions) from some fixed set of statements (called deductive premises)”(Ibid)
Induction creates new combinations, that normally lead to modifications in frames of references
Deduction merely explicits already existing implicit knowledge
See also
Abduction