The material theory of induction /

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Author / Creator:Norton, John D., author.
Imprint:Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2021]
Description:xi, 668 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:BSPS open series ; no. 1
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12716479
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ISBN:1773852531
9781773852539
9781773852751
1773852752
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
Summary:"The inaugural title in the new, Open Access series BSPS Open, The Material Theory of Induction will initiate a new tradition in the analysis of inductive inference. 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."--
Other form:Online version: Norton, John D. Material theory of induction. Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2021 177385254X 9781773852546

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