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This will be best explained by defining the positive property of inductiveness which characterises the finite numbers, and which is named after the method of proof known as “mathematical induction.”

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

His first work, Begriffsschrift, published in 1879, contained the very important theory of hereditary properties in a series to which I alluded in connection with inductiveness.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand