Universal Laws and the Case of Cholera
Harvard University, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, November 30, 2015.
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Induction case studies
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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The Other Kind of Induction
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, October 17, 2014.
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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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Induction in the Socratic Tradition
McCaskey here seeks to recover a lost conception of induction, one whose leading theoreticians were William Whewell, Francis Bacon, Socrates, and Aristotle.
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Regula Socratis: The Rediscovery of Ancient Induction in Early Modern England
My dissertation. A account of how philosophical induction was conceived in the ancient world and how that conception was later rediscovered by, especially, Francis Bacon.
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Harriman, The Logical Leap
A review on Amazon, September 2010.
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