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Can a inductive argument be changed into a deductive argument?

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Sure, you count the apples in a basket, for example. Inductively, you found that there are five. Now, if you were to give an answer as to one of them being a part of a set of all the apples in a basket, you would have to say that it is a part of a set consisting of five apples.

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