The Implications of Induction

ISBN-13: 9780367426095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 254 str.

L. Jonathan Cohen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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　

O autorze

Cohen\, L. Jonathan