Induction or inductive reasoning is a way of thinking used in the process of understanding things. Sometimes called inductive logic, it means that people find out the basic laws or * * * identity laws they follow according to a series of empirical things or knowledge materials, and assume that other things in the same class also follow these laws, as a cognitive method to predict the basic principles of other things in the same class.

There are two common definitions of induction. Defined as the method of drawing general conclusions from individual premises; According to this definition, it includes simple enumeration induction, complete induction, scientific induction, elimination induction by John Mill and Wright, inverse reasoning and mathematical induction. The second definition is the method of drawing conclusions from individual premises or probabilities; According to this definition, it includes simple enumeration induction, elimination induction by John Mill and Wright, backward deduction and analogy, but it does not include complete induction, scientific induction and mathematical induction.