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.
ReadJohn D. Norton says philosophers have been led astray for thousands of years by their attempt to treat induction formally.
ReadNot all conceptions of induction rely on a uniformity principle. The Socratic, Aristotelian and Baconian didn’t.
ReadDavid Hume didn’t think he had anything important to say about induction. That’s just one myth in the history of induction.
ReadMill’s project was not to promote induction but to replace it with his own Hypothetical and Deductive Methods.
ReadAnalytic statements have gotten a bad rap. But shorn of unfortunate associations, there is nothing wrong with them.
ReadTo solve the problem of induction, we should distinguish general statements from universal ones and recognize the fundamental importance of the first.
ReadPrior Analytics II 23 is not really about induction by complete enumeration, as all commentators have thought.
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