The Thomas-Nolt Dispute: Some Lessons about Induction

I resolve an apparently unresolved dispute about how probable uniform experience makes an extrapolation from it, and draw some general lessons about such enumerative induction. Uniform experience does not necessarily confer a high probability on an extrapolation of or generalization from that experi...

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Main Author: David Hitchcock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 1999-01-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/2328