drawing a conclusion based on data inductive reasoning Bjoern Peters inductive reasoning wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning BP: 10/22/122: After changing the parent class to drawing a conclusion *based on data* it is no longer clear that this class is needed; minimally it needs a better definition to distinguish it. Proposal is to obsolete. Based on the observation that all lung cancer patients treated with aspirin in our clinical trial survived longer than the control group, we conclude by inductive reasining that aspirin has a therapeutic effect on lung cancer. a interpreting data that is used to ascribe properties or relations to types based on an observation instance (i.e., on a number of observations or experiences); or to formulate laws based on limited observations of recurring phenomenal patterns. requires discussion