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The Implications of Induction
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Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for analysing inductive support for hypotheses and discusses each of these criteria in depth. The chapters cover philosophical problems and paradoxes about experimental support, probability and justifiability, ending with a system of logical syntax of induction. Each section begins with a summary of its contents and there is a glossary of technical terms to aid the reader.
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Index
abstraction of concepts for analysis, 4, 11, 36, 107, 137, 167
acceptability, 8ff., 74, 90ff., 112, 119, 132, 151, 154, 162, 167, 197, 205
adequacy, criteria of, 1ff, 88, 129f., 142, 182f.
agreement, method of, 74, 80, 121
Albertus Magnus, 125
analogy, argument by, 163ff., 188ff.
analytic-synthetic distinction, 46, 187, 189, 197
Anderson, A. R., 233
antinomies, semantical, 214, 237
Aqvist, L., 176
Aristotle, 163ff., 174, 190
Austin, J., 170f.
axiomatisation:
aim of, 3, 160, 207ff.
consistency of, 184, 236f.
Ayer, A. J., 185
Bacon, F., 11, 88, 106, 125, 128f., 131, 133, 160, 164, 184
Barcan, R. C., 200f., 213
Bar-Hillel, Y., 135ff.
Belnap, N. D., 233
Bernoulli, J., 109, 191
betting criterion, 129ff.
Black, M., 204
Blackstone, W., 170f.
Braithwaite, R. B., 10
calculus: see probability, calculus of; inductive calculus
Carnap, R.:
analogies between deduction and induction, 9, 194, 200, 202
applicability of confirmation-theory, 184
betting criterion, 130
‘confirm’, use of, 7f., 13, 233
confirmation-measures, 1, 16, 30, 129, 131ff., 196f.
confirmation of causal hypotheses, 28
criticism of H. Reichenbach, 17
evidence, requirement of total, 9, 197
evidential relevance, 55
inductive logic, 207, 229ff.
information-measure, 135ff.
instance-confirmation, 23, 50
intuition, appeal to, 202
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Errata
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Some Elementary Principles in the Logical Syntax of Experimental Support
- II The Ranking of Experimental Support
- III Problems and Paradoxes about Experimental Support
- IV Induction and Probability
- V Some Non-Standard Uses of Induction
- VI The Justifiability of Induction
- VII A Formalisation of Inductive Syntax
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Index