---
title: "Inductive Reasoning"
category: 02-reasoning
level: intermediate
stability: stable
description: "Apply inductive reasoning in AI agent workflows."
added: "2025-03"
---

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# Inductive Reasoning

**Category:** `reasoning`  
**Skill Level:** `intermediate`  
**Stability:** `stable`
**Added:** 2025-03

### Description

Generalize from specific observations to broader principles or likely conclusions.

### Example

```
Observations:
  - Request A: 2s when table had 1,000 rows
  - Request B: 4s when table had 2,000 rows
  - Request C: 8s when table had 4,000 rows
Generalization: Query time grows exponentially with row count — index needed.
```

### Related Skills

- [Deductive Reasoning](deductive-reasoning.md)
- [Statistical Analysis](../12-data/statistical-analysis.md)
