Let's agree to be different. On empirical and deductive nature of coding

Scientists use these 6 (or more) terms: inductive, empirical, a posteriori, deductive, rational, and a priori.

For the sake of completeness, abductive reasoning should also be considered. Especially for being a good problem solver, or during program debugging, it is important to use abductive intuition to find the most plausible causes to save your time (and be seen as an efficient problem solver over time).

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