Reviving Material Theories of Induction
John D. Norton says philosophers have been led astray for thousands of years by their attempt to treat induction formally.
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Induction
Induction Without the Uniformity Principle
Not all conceptions of induction rely on a uniformity principle. The Socratic, Aristotelian and Baconian didn’t.
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The History of Induction
David Hume didn’t think he had anything important to say about induction. That’s just one myth in the history of induction.
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Mill Came to Bury Induction, Not to Praise It
Mill’s project was not to promote induction but to replace it with his own Hypothetical and Deductive Methods.
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Analytic Statements and Organic Concepts
Analytic statements have gotten a bad rap. But shorn of unfortunate associations, there is nothing wrong with them.
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Key to Induction: Distinguish General and Universal
To solve the problem of induction, we should distinguish general statements from universal ones and recognize the fundamental importance of the first.
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Freeing Aristotelian Epagōgē from Prior Analytics II 23
Prior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.
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