Inductive inference is reasoning from the observed behaviour of objects to their behaviour when unobserved; as Hume says, it is a question of how things behave when they go "beyond the present testimony of the senses, and the records of our memory".
Inductive inference is reasoning from the observed behaviour of objects to their behaviour when unobserved. It is a question of how things behave when they go "beyond the present testimony of the senses, and the records of our memory". Hume says.