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YOUR correspondent, Mr. William White, has not, it seems to me, a correct appreciation of the words “deductive” and “induction,” as used in reference to the investigation of the causes of phenomena. The mistake which he makes is a very frequent one, and is due to the ambiguity of the words themselves, and to the inaccessibility of a treatise on modern logic.
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LANKESTER, E. Deductive Biology. Nature 28, 171–172 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028171d0
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