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The Material Theory of Induction (Paperback)
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The Material Theory of Induction (Paperback)
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The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to
determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of
inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional
approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive
inference. It seeks universally applicable schemas or rules or a
single formal device, such as the probability calculus. After
millennia of halting efforts, none of these approaches has been
unequivocally successful and debates between approaches persist.The
Material Theory of Induction identifies the source of these
enduring problems in the assumption taken at the outset: that
inductive inference can be accommodated by a single formal account
with universal applicability. Instead, it argues that that there is
no single, universally applicable formal account. Rather, each
domain has an inductive logic native to it. Which that is, and its
extent, is determined by the facts prevailing in that domain.
Paying close attention to how inductive inference is conducted in
science and copiously illustrated with real-world examples, The
Material Theory of Induction will initiate a new tradition in the
analysis of inductive inference.
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