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Inductive Reasoning 1

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[wisling]

Ideas:
The idea that if something about the real world was the case, then what you observe would be expected.
The idea that something else could be be the case, and would explain what was observed, and that that is a valid inductive reasoning as well.
The problem with inductive reasoning is that you could have multiple rules that give the same observations.
The one that is usually chosen is the one that has the least complexity.

[wisling]

I think there should be an introduction to inductive reasoning that explains what it actually is before trying to do math with it.
This concept is hard to explain to someone who doesn't already know what it is, and I think the videos you currently have would only help someone who already understands it well enough to apply to math.
I hope you appreciate me pointing this out and I hope you consider it.

[christiangab]

Thank you ^^ once again you are truly great for sharing such a helpful knowledge ^^

[wisling]

*read backwards* I hope that gives you some idea as to what I mean. You touch on these topics a bit in each video about induction, but they're well hidden :P and I think a new video would bring them to light and help a new student of the subject understand.