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John D. Norton
Surveys of Induction
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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.
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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.
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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.
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