The Material Theory of Induction

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dc.contributor.authorNorton, John D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-22T23:02:59Z
dc.date.available2021-11-22T23:02:59Z
dc.date.copyright2021-11
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.description.abstractThe 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. The content of that logic and where it can be applied are 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNorton, J. D. (2021). The Material Theory of Induction. University of Calgary Press.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781773852546
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114133
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39394
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgary Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Pittsburghen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://press.ucalgary.ca/en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBSPS Open SERIES, 1en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.subjectInductive inferenceen_US
dc.subjectLogicen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleThe Material Theory of Inductionen_US
dc.typebooken_US
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