Examples+in+Text(s)


 * Example of Inductive Reasoning in Texts: **

1. “All States, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been are either republics or principalities. Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new…Such dominions thus acquired are either accustomed to live under a prince, or to live in freedom; and are acquired either by arms of a prince himself, or by others, or else by the fortune or ability.” (Nicolo Machiavelli, //The Prince//) “All States, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been are either republics or principalities”
 * Specific Case: **

These dominions are obtained by wealth or skill
 * Generalization: **

§ Machiavelli uses //Inductive Logic// top explain in which circumstances republics or principalities are accepted as forms of government which are either attained by inheritance or through wealth and/or ability. //Inductive Logic// in this example is to state the different forms of government in which a people live in and the reasoning for which either forms of government have been inherited through generations.

** Specific Case: ** “Wild cats crept in from the fields at night”
 * 1) “The wild cats crept in from the fields at night, but they did not mew at the doorstep anymore.” (John Steinbeck, //The Grapes of Wrath//)

The cats will not come any longer
 * Generalization: **

§ Steinbeck describes the loneliness in the nights after most of the habitants of Oklahoma have migrated to the west and personifies this hollowness by speaking of the cats that have stopped to look for people after seeing the emptiness in each house. This form of reasoning emphasis that realization that all of the previous farmers have left and will not return.

** Specific Case: ** “The rock-pigeon is of a salty-blue, and has a white rump”
 * 1) “The rock-pigeon is of a salty-blue, and has a white rump; the tail has a terminal dark bar, with the bases of the outer feathers externally edged with white; the wings have two black bars: some semi-domestic breeds and some apparently truly wild breeds have, besides the two black bars, the wings chequered with black. These several marks do not occur together in any other species of the whole family.”(Charles Darwin, //The Origins of Species//)

These characteristics are not present in another species within the family
 * Generalization: **


 * Darwin’s entries in his book; //The Origins of Species// explains at the characteristics of a rock-pigeon and for what reason their specific characteristics belong to either semi-a domesticated breeds or wild breeds. At the end he makes the broad conclusion that there are no other species in the family of pigeons which exhibit these same characteristics.


 * Note: Numerical Induction is not a form of literary //Inductive Reasoning//. **