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Inductive Reasoning

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Hypotheses cannot be ‘proven’ to be true because the next study might produce different results that disprove the hypothesis. This is known as [1 mark]

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The problem of induction, because induction involves reasoning from the particular (the results of a study) to the general. [1 mark]

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