Rudimenta artium dialecticae et rhetoricae

DIALECTICAE.

What induction is.

Induction is an argumentation by which one universal proposition is concluded from many singular and particular ones. Such is this, which Melanchthon uses:

Rhine wine heats:
Cretan wine heats:
Likewise Rhaetian [wine]:
And it is not known that any kind of wine has a different power:
Therefore all wine heats.

All the propositions of this induction that precede the conclusion are singular: for they pronounce about individual wines, which grow everywhere. But the conclusion itself is universal, as it is one which makes a ruling about the whole genus; namely, that every wine heats. And this is indeed a universal proposition, as is clear.

But come, let us take another example taken from Cicero's speech for Milo:
The Roman plebs feel very well about Milo,