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Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1952. This book is a critical survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World War I. It contains some detailed exposition of ideas – notably of Keynes – that were cryptically put forward, often quoted, but nowhere explained. Part I discusses and illustrates the method of hypothesis. Part II concerns induction. Part III considers... Read more
- Scientific Outlook
- Experiments and Method
- The Contrast Between Generalisation and Non-Instantial Hypothesis
- The Principle of Testability
- Induction and the Hypothetico-Deductive System
- Hypothetico-Deductive Explanation
- Two Types of Simplicity
- Determinism, Orderliness and Uncertainty
- Operationalism and the Descriptive Interpretation
- The Traditional Approach to Induction
- Criteria for Causal Determination and Functional Relationship
- The Nature and Strength of Generalisation, Analogy and Induction
- Induction by Repetition
- The Law of Uniformity of Nature
- Requirements for an Inductive Principle
- Four Principles of Induction
- Induction as a Successful Habit
- The Vertical Causal Nexus
- Impasse in the Inductive Approach
- Some Theorems in Probability
- The Meaning of Probability
- The Probability of a Hypothesis
- Probability and Induction
- Transformation of the Problem of Induction
Appendix: The Probability Calculus and Keynes’s Principle
List of Works Directly Cited
Index
Biography
J O Wisdom
