Analogical reasoning: a Carnapian approach.
Analogical reasoning is a form of non-deductive reasoning that gives special weight to similarity considerations. Here, we pursue an approach to formalizing this type of reasoning that was initiated by Carnap in posthumously published work. In it, Carnap abandoned his long-time project of trying to...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 5; pp. 1 - 35 |
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