Inductive reasoning is the process of inferring some general principle from a body of knowledge , where does not necessarily follow from . might give us very good reason to accept but does not ensure . For example, if it is given that 95% percent of the elephants are gray, and Louise is an elephant, one can induce that Louise is gray. Still, this is not necessarily the case: 5 percent of the time
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