Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

In an experimental study using 378 eighth-grade students, analyses of variance with the levels of confidence at better than one percent showed that the deductive method was superior to the inductive ...

LET me begin by removing misapprehensions. I did not, as Prof. J. B. S. Haldane suggests, attack Prof. E. A. Milne and Sir Arthur Eddington: “Milne”, “Eddington” and “Dirac” were merely symbols to ...

In this article, the authors use inductive and deductive methods to explore the role of empathy in care-giving jobs: specifically, the relationship between empathetic care and patient safety. The ...

IN the few remarks which I communicated to this journal (vol. xxvii. p. 554) under the above heading, I protested against the deductive method used in a purely literary manner as a mischievous way of ...