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Popper Popper's bold attempt to find an account of the rationality of science that did not employ inductive inference was destined to fail from the start, since science is an ineliminably inductive venture. "The Rise and Fall of Karl Popper's Anti-inductivism," Download.
No rules Here is a systematic survey of the many accounts of induction and confirmation in the literature with a special concern for the basic principles that ground inductive inference. I believe it is possible to see that all extant accounts depend on one or more of three basic principles. "A Little Survey of Induction," in P. Achinstein, ed., Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1905. pp. 9-34. Download.
black swan This is a more detailed survey of one of the three families of theories of inductive inference described in the "little survey" above. It has many illustrations. "A Survey of Inductive Generaliztion" Dowload.