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The article author was referring to inductive reasoning in the sense of epistemology, which is not the same as mathematical induction. In fact, mathematical induction is a deductive reasoning technique.

Here's the relevant wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning



You might also refer to this as "recursion" when talking about computer programming.




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