Inductive reasoning

====Ancient medicine====
The [[Empiric school]] of ancient Greek medicine employed ''[[epilogism]]'' as a method of inference. 'Epilogism' is a theory-free method that looks at history through the accumulation of facts without major generalization and with consideration of the consequences of making causal claims.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Taleb|first=Nassim Nicholas|title=The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|year=2010|isbn=978-0812973815|location=New York|pages=199, 302, 383}}</ref> Epilogism is an inference which moves entirely within the domain of visible and evident things, it tries not to invoke [[unobservable]]s.

The [[Dogmatic school]] of ancient Greek medicine employed ''analogismos'' as a method of inference.<ref>[[Galen]] ''On Medical Experience'', 24.</ref> This method used analogy to reason from what was observed to unobservable forces.