Is laboratory experimentation method inductive in nature?
(Note: the term ‘inductive’ here is used with its old meanings i.e. generalization): We know that ‘principles’ are the abstract generalizations of various natural phenomena. These principles are not the results of any laboratory experimentation. Laboratory experimentation, in fact is used just to ‘objectively’ verify the truth of the principle. The concept of laboratory method seems opposite to the concept of induction i.e. generalization. Again see that: “Principles are abstract generalizations of various natural phenomena.” The thing, which is to be objectively verified through the laboratory method, is already ‘general’ in nature. This thing (i.e. principle) not only is ‘general’ but also is ‘abstract’. The laboratory method is opposite to induction because in the laboratory method, we try to confirm the truth of ‘abstractly generalized’ principle by translating it into a ‘material particular’ occurrence. If the results of that ‘material particular’ occurrence give the same value as
