Inductive learning, definition

The first step in an inductive learning process is always to order the observations to group those objects together that have essential features in common and to separate objects that are distinctly different. Thus, in learning from individual reactions we have to classify reactions - we have to define reaction types that encompass a series of reactions with essential common characteristics. Clearly, the definition of what are essential common features is subjective and thus a variety of different classification schemes have been proposed. 

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Unlike other supervised learning methodologies presented in this article, explanation-based learning (EBL) is not an inductive approach. It forms its concept definition from a... 

The definition oifugacity can be attributed to the thermodynamics giant G. N. Lewis. Unlike the other concepts we have seen so far in this text, it developed inductively rather than deductively. In fact, fugacity is undoubtedly but one of many ways to get around the mathematical anomalies of the chemical potential however, it is the way that is used in practice, and we will learn about it next. 

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