The Material Theory of Induction

by John D. Norton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773852531
• ISBN13: 9781773852539
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.0" x 8.9"