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# Inductive reasoning ## ALGORITHM — Inductive reasoning (MicroSim) (three.js) *Interactive microsim added from the ALGORITHM hub · live: https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/Inductive_reasoning.html* ## Controls -> what each maps to (three.js) | Control | Maps to | Range / values | Meaning | |---|---|---|---| | + Add Observation | A confirming instance (sample point) | Discrete; one per click | Widens the evidence base and strengthens the generalization forming at the funnel's neck | | + Add Counter-Example | A refuting instance (e.g., a black swan) | Discrete; one per click | Defeats or weakens the hypothesis, demonstrating non-monotonicity and falsification | | Reset | Clearing the premise set | Button | Empties all cases; the hypothesis returns to undefined | <div class="microsim-player">  <p class="wt-pending"><strong>Microsim staged, not yet on the CDN.</strong> <code>Inductive_reasoning.html</code> is built and deploy-ready in <code>Microsims for Dissemination/</code>, but the Netlify project still serves the geometry+spintronics set only. The player is disabled until the deploy lands; the explanatory text below is unchanged.</p>   </div> ## About this microsim The sim draws a funnel that turns particulars into a generalization in front of you. Press **+ Add Observation** and one more confirming instance drops into the funnel's mouth; as instances stack up, the rule forming at the narrow spout is drawn more boldly — more data, more confidence. Press **+ Add Counter-Example** and a single contradicting case enters, and the once-solid conclusion visibly weakens or shatters: the show-before-tell proof that induction is *defeasible*. **Reset** empties the funnel back to no evidence and no hypothesis. There are no sliders or numeric ranges — the interaction is these three buttons and the running tally they produce, so you feel directly how an argument's strength tracks the balance between supporting and refuting cases. ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `A._J._Ayer` · `A_General_View_of_Positivism` · `A_Treatise_on_Probability` · `A_priori_and_a_posteriori` · `Abductive_reasoning` · `Absolute_idealism` · `Accelerated_failure_time_model` · `Accident_(fallacy)` · `Actuarial_science` · `Akaike_information_criterion` · [[Alexander_Bogdanov]] · `Alfred_North_Whitehead` · `Algorithmic_information_theory` · `Algorithmic_probability` · `Altruism` · `Analogy` · `Analysis_of_covariance` · `Analysis_of_variance` · `Analytic–synthetic_distinction` · `Anderson–Darling_test` · `Anecdotal_evidence` · `Anscombe_transform` · `Antecedent_(logic)` · `Anti-realism` · `Antihumanism` · `Antinomy` · `Antipositivism` · `Argument` · `Argument_from_analogy` · `Argumentation_theory` · `Aristotle` · `Arithmetic_mean` 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