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Local Induction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976)
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Local Induction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976)
Series: Synthese Library, 93
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The local justification of beliefs and hypotheses has recently
become a major concern for epistemologists and philosophers of
induction. As such, the problem of local justification is not
entirely new. Most pragmatists had addressed themselves to it, and
so did, to some extent, many classical inductivists in the
Bacon-Whewell-Mill tradition. In the last few decades, however, the
use of logic and semantics, probability calculus, statistical
methods, and decision-theoretic concepts in the reconstruction of
in ductive inference has revealed some important technical respects
in which inductive justification can be local: the choice of a
language, with its syntactic and semantic features, the relativity
of probabilistic evalua tions to an initial body of evidence or
background knowledge and to an agent's utilities and preferences,
etc. Some paradoxes and difficulties encountered by purely formal
accounts of inductive justification, the erosion of the once
dominant empiricist position, which most approaches to induction
took for granted, and the increasing challenge of noninduc tivist
epistemolgies have underscored the need of accounting for the
methodological problems of applying inductive logic to real life
contexts, particularly in science. As a result, in the late fifties
and sixties, several related developments pointed to a new, local
approach to inductive justification."
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