[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Induction or inductive reasoning, sometimes called inductive logic, is the process of reasoning in which the premises of an argument support the conclusion but do not ensure it."

Science at it's core is based on inductive reasoning. Pure deduction, like Descartes advocated, may give you logically true statements, but these statements will have no relation to reality unless the premises are checked against the real world. My point was that all of the deduction in the world won't help you without some real life observations to back it up. That's why Descartes, as brilliant as he was, often made the simplest of errors in his deductions because he didn't think it was necessary to actually observe the world.

Math can be purely deductive. Science absolutely needs induction (though obviously deductive reasoning is useful too).

[jec41]

Deductive reasoning without a fact of reality results in philosophy.