Inductive reasoning is when someone observes data, recognizes patterns within these observations, and then draws a conclusion on these observations that they found.
Let's look at an example.
A 12-oz. coke bottle exploded after an hour in the freezer.
A second 12-oz. coke bottle exploded after an hour in the freezer.
The reasoning that was used here was inductive reasoning.
Although we might want to test a few more 12-oz. coke bottles, we can tentatively conclude that all 12-oz. coke bottles will explode after an hour in the freezer.
Since were using oneservations and recognizing patterns to draw a
conclusion, our conclusion is based on inductive reasoning.
