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Induction Without the Uniformity Principle

May 12, 2015Jul 13, 2020 John 11795 Views 3 Comments Aristotle, History of philosophy of science, Induction, John Stuart Mill, Richard Whately, Thomas Reid, Uniformity principle

Not all conceptions of induction rely on a uniformity principle. The Socratic, Aristotelian and Baconian didn’t.

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