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Induction and inference to the best explanation
Philosophical Studies 166 (1):203-216 (2013)
Abstract
In this paper I adduce a new argument in support of the claim that IBE is an autonomous form of inference, based on a familiar, yet surprisingly, under-discussed, problem for Hume’s theory of induction. I then use some insights thereby gleaned to argue for the claim that induction is really IBE, and draw some normative conclusionsAuthor's Profile
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10.1007/s11098-012-0034-1
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Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World.Wesley C. Salmon - 1984 - Princeton University Press.
A treatise of human nature.David Hume & A. D. Lindsay - 2000 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by David Fate Norton & Mary J. Norton.
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