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If you could identify an aspect of what it is to be some given effect, would you call that knowledge inductive?
If you could discover such an aspect through a process, would you consider that process inductive?
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If you found that one aspect of heat transfer was the motion of constituents, would you regard that as causal knowledge and therefore grounds for induction?
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I do not know a lot of physics, nor am I particularly familiar with the history of the discoveries science has made about heat. If I am not mistaken, Harriman does regard your example as a causal basis for induction.
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When I was looking at history of science, I formed a number of concepts relevant to scientific investigation. I've compiled my thoughts on them here:
http://onyx-lodestone.tiddlyspace.com/#[[elements%20of%20scientific%20investigation]]