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What Makes Induction Rational?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

D. M. Armstrong
D. M. Armstrong
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University of Sydney
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In this paper I put forward what I think is a new approach to the problem of induction. I sketched the approach in brief sections of a book published in 1983 (chap. 4, sec. 5 and chap. 6, sec. 7). The same idea had occurred to the English philosopher John Foster and he presented it in a paper at about the same time (1983).

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , Fall 1991 , pp. 503 - 512
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1991

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