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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.
List of contents
Preface. Introduction 1. Some Elementary Principles in the Logical Syntax of Experimental Support 2. The Ranking of Experimental Support 3. Problems and Paradoxes about Experimental Support 4. Induction and Probability 5. Some Non-Standard Uses of Induction 6. The Justifiability of Induction 7. A Formalisation of Inductive Syntax. Glossary of Technical Terms
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Cohen\, L. Jonathan
Summary
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.
