Learn in the textbookSymbolic AI and Logical Reasoning
DefinitionInductive reasoning (帰納推論) draws a general rule from what several individual cases have in common.
ExplanationThe more cases you observe, the more likely the conclusion becomes, but it never guarantees the cases you have not yet seen. Machine learning, which finds patterns in data, is built on this same inductive idea.
AnalogyIt is like noticing that a shop you have visited a few times is always closed on Wednesdays and deciding Wednesday is its day off. If it is open one Wednesday, you have to rethink.
Memory hookInduction comes from Latin for "lead into": the individual cases lead you into one general rule.