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Inductive Incompleteness.

Nelson Goodman cast the ‘problem of induction’ as the task of articulating the principles and standards by which to distinguish valid from invalid inductive inferences. This paper explores some logical bounds on the ability of a rational reasoner to accomplish this task. By a simple argument, either...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 128; no. 1; pp. 109 - 136
Main Author: Hild, Matthias
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2006
Subjects:
Induction (Logic)
Inference (Logic)
Logic
Reasoning
Game theory
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