What is the role of induction and deduction in reasoning and scientific inquiry

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Big Data consumer analytics and the transformation of marketing (2016, unknown): “Although most research involves some aspects of both inductive and deductive techniques, deductive techniques have been widely used as a method of scienti ﬁ c inquiry (King et al., 2004; Lawson, 2005).”
Does a Knowledge Generation Approach to Learning Benefit Students? A Systematic Review of Research on the Science Writing Heuristic Approach (2020, background): “Science is centered on explanation which is “contingent and demonstrated through evidence” (Moshman 2015, p. 74) which Lawson (2005) argues is based on three phases: abduction, which begins the process of trying to generate a possible explanation; data collection; and deduction in order to arrive…”
A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity (2023, background): “On the contrary, inductive reasoning involves specific observation of patterns , processing them on increasingly abstract cycles of hypothetico-deductive reasoning to draw a more general conclusion (Lawson, 2005).”