The War on Induction: Whewell Takes On Newton and Mill (Norton Takes On Everyone).

I consider and reject William Whewell's attack on the inductivism of Isaac Newton and John Stuart Mill, as well as John Norton's attack on any universal system of inductive rules. I also explain how a system of inductive rules of the sort proposed by Newton and Mill should be understood.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 728 - 740
Main Author: Achinstein, Peter
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2010
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