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Home Deduction & Induction « PreviousHomeNext » In logic, we often refer to the two broad methods of reasoning as the deductive and inductive approaches. Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more specific. Sometimes this is informally called a "top-down" approach. We might begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest. Inductive reasoning works the other way, moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories. These two methods of reasoning have a very different "feel" to them when you're conducting research. Copyright �2006, William M.K.