The Paradox of Analogy

Authors

  • David Botting IFL, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v32i1.3143

Keywords:

analogy, confirmation, induction

Abstract

I will show that there is a type of analogical reasoning that instantiates a pattern of reasoning in confirmation theory that is considered at best paradoxical and at worst fatal to the entire syntactical approach to confirmation and explanation. However, I hope to elaborate conditions under which this is a sound (although not necessarily strong) method of reasoning.

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Published

2012-03-08

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 1 (2012)

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