Inductive logic

Event Trees. Event trees use an inductive logic approach to consider the effects of safety systems on an initiating event. The initiating event is propagated through the various safety functions. Branching is dependent upon the success or failure of the safety function. 

At the beginning of a lawsuit, a lawyer may collect many documents, mostly authored by a witness or including letters addressed to that witness. The lawyer then prepares to take this witness s testimony by oral examination (called a deposition) outside the courtroom to discover what facts the witness knows about the case. This exercise requires the lawyer to study and to analyze these documents to learn, through inductive logic, what motivates this particular witness, what prompted him to make the statements that he made in certain letters, what objectives he was seeking, and what admissions he might now make. 

In a deposition by oral examination before trial, the witnesses the lawyer will be examining are normally hostile or adversary. In these situations inductive logic can be a powerful weapon which enables the lawyer to divine what kind of person the witness is, how he is likely to answer questions, what his biases are, and how the lawyer can strengthen his own case or weaken his opponent s through the examination of this witness. 

How fundamentally this point of view differs from that of modern science and how accordant it nevertheless is with the greater part of medieval logic in such matters, it is needless to emphasize. Plato places all the emphasis on deductive logic, and his employment of inductive logic is almost subconsciously applied, so little effort is made to control his notions of the causes of things on the basis of observed facts. He is mainly endeavoring to interpret the will of the creative power through his own ideas of harmony, beauty and beneficence. 

Inductive logic programming (ILP) is not a pharmacophore generation method by itself, but a subfield of the machine learning approach. In this field, other methods such as hidden Markov models, Bayesian learning, decision trees and logic programs are available. 

King, R.D. and Srinivasan, A., Prediction of rodent carcinogenicity biossays from molecular structure using inductive logic programming, Environ. Health Perspect., 104 (Suppl. 5), 1031-1040, 1996. 

Are scientific laws in general based on inductive logic or on deductive logic Explain the difference between inductive and deductive logic. 

Baird, Davis. 1992. Inductive Logic Probability and Statistics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall. Baird, Davis. 1993. "Analytical Chemistry and the Big Scientific Instrumentation Revolution." Annals of Science 50 267-290. 

Cannon, E.O., Amini, A., Bender, A., Sternberg, M.J. E., Muggleton, S.H., Glen, R.C. and Mitchell, J.B. O. (2007) Support vector inductive logic programming outperforms the naive Bayes classifier and inductive logic programming for the classification of bioactive chemical compounds. 

King RD, Srinivasan A. The discovery of indicator variables for QSAR using inductive logic programming. J Comput-Aided Mol Des 1997 11 571-580. 

Vernadsky shared a positivistic trust in logical and mathematical methods. However, as we have seen, his understanding of logic is quite original. He stated that both the inductive logic of J. S. Mill and philosophical logic are alien to exact science. However, he believed that proper logic and mathematics reflect the properties of the real observable world. 

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a distinctly different modelling method from all others described here. Most of these applications rely on attribute-based learning. However, attribute-based learning is limited to non-relational descriptions of objects in the sense that the learned descriptions... 

Hintikka, J., Suppes, P., Aspects of Inductive Logic, North-Holland, 1966. 

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