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Induction is the logical process we use to arrive at general claims, scientific laws, definitions, and predictions. This book offers state-of-the-art essays by experts who argue against the prevailing Humean view of inductive reasoning as an unreliable, enumerative argument. They present alternative...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis;
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| Summary: |
Induction is the logical process we use to arrive at general claims, scientific laws, definitions, and predictions. This book offers state-of-the-art essays by experts who argue against the prevailing Humean view of inductive reasoning as an unreliable, enumerative argument. They present alternative accounts in line with an on-going tradition that includes authors such as Socrates, Aristotle, the Scholastics, Goethe, Lonergan, and Rescher. |
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1 online resource (viii, 536 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110347777 |
| Index Number: | BC91 |
| CLC: | B812.3 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / Hume s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific / Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study / Intelligibility / Induction, Science, and Knowledge / Induction in the Socratic Tradition / Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation / The Problem of Example / The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? / From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid / Not Induction s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions / Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux / Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism / Goethe and Intuitive Induction / Lonergan s Solution to the "Problem of Induction" / Induction as a Pragmatic Resource / Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence / Epilogue / Contributors Biographies -- Index. |