The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of facts comprising a science or science in general. These relations form a massively entangled, non-hierarchical structure which is discovered by making hypotheses...
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| description | The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of facts comprising a science or science in general. These relations form a massively entangled, non-hierarchical structure which is discovered by making hypotheses provisionally that are later supported by facts drawn from the entirety of the science. What results is a benignly circular, self-supporting inductive structure in which universal rules are not employed, the classical Humean problem cannot be formulated and analogous regress arguments fail.
The earlier volume, The Material Theory of Induction, proposed that individual inductive inferences are warranted not by universal rules but by facts particular to each context. This book now investigates how the totality of these inductive inferences interact in a mature science. Each fact that warrants an individual inductive inference is in turn supported inductively by other facts. Numerous case studies in the history of science support, and illustrate further, those claims. This is a novel, thoroughly researched, and sustained remedy to the enduring failures of formal approaches to inductive inference.
With The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference, author John D. Norton presents a novel, thoroughly researched, and sustained remedy to the enduring failures of formal approaches of inductive inference. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1432502024-08-27T04:24:17Z The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference Norton, John D. Induction;inductive inference;deductive inference;Hume’s problem;the problem of induction;circularity;regress;hypothesis;local theory;self-supporting;recession of the nebulae;Newton on Gravitation;atomic spectra;radiocarbon dating;Dalton, Cannizzaro, atomic weights;history of planetary distances;dowsing;stock market prediction thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTL Philosophy: logic thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities) The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of facts comprising a science or science in general. These relations form a massively entangled, non-hierarchical structure which is discovered by making hypotheses provisionally that are later supported by facts drawn from the entirety of the science. What results is a benignly circular, self-supporting inductive structure in which universal rules are not employed, the classical Humean problem cannot be formulated and analogous regress arguments fail. The earlier volume, The Material Theory of Induction, proposed that individual inductive inferences are warranted not by universal rules but by facts particular to each context. This book now investigates how the totality of these inductive inferences interact in a mature science. Each fact that warrants an individual inductive inference is in turn supported inductively by other facts. Numerous case studies in the history of science support, and illustrate further, those claims. This is a novel, thoroughly researched, and sustained remedy to the enduring failures of formal approaches to inductive inference. With The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference, author John D. Norton presents a novel, thoroughly researched, and sustained remedy to the enduring failures of formal approaches of inductive inference. 2024-08-27T04:24:16Z 2024-08-27T04:24:16Z 2024-08-14T08:52:34Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92753 9781773855394 9781773855400 9781773855431 9781773855424 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143250 eng BSPS Open open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92753/1/Norton_PDF.pdf University of Calgary Press 388fac32-9167-49a8-bb2b-bc9412a7d937 9781773855394 9781773855400 9781773855431 9781773855424 451 Calgary open access |
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