[GunRunner]

Well, I gotta go feed my dog. I’ve deduced he’s hungry from him bringing me his food bowl.

That's actually inductive reasoning. You can't know for a fact that he's hungry since he can't tell you; you're making your best assumption on the facts at hand. Maybe he wants to play fetch and can't find his ball, so he brought you his bowl instead. 8^)

[steve-b]

That's actually inductive reasoning. You can't know for a fact that he's hungry since he can't tell you; you're making your best assumption on the facts at hand.

The same is true when a human being tells you he's hungry, really; one infers that certain sounds correspond to certain concepts based on inductive learning in childhood.