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Miller, David (2014) If you must do confirmation theory, do it this way. In: Lecture given at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 13 May 2014 pp. 1-32. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
It has been a standard response to Hume’s criticism of induction that, of course, inductive arguments are not deductively valid, but they are inductively valid. An inductive conclusion c does not follow with certainty from the empirical assumptions or premises a. At best, c is partially deducible from a.
The conclusion of a valid inductive argument is not proved from the assumptions of the argument, but it is said to be confirmed by them. In what philosophers call inductive logic or confirmation theory, it is usually taken for granted that the degree of deducibility or the uncertainty of an inductive argument from a to c is best measured by the probability p(c|a).
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Lecture) | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Induction (Logic), Logic , Probabilities | ||||
| Official Date: | 13 May 2014 | ||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 1-32 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This paper belongs to the author. Please note that unpublished papers are subject to correction, revision, and modernization, without explicit notice. No version, current or obsolete, of any of these papers and lectures should be cited in print without the author's written permission. | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Copyright Holders: | D. W. Miller | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Lecture | ||||
| Title of Event: | Lecture given at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México | ||||
| Type of Event: | Other | ||||
| Location of Event: | Mexico City, Mexico | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 13 May 2014 |
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