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Variety, Analogy, and Periodicity in Inductive Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap*
Affiliation:
University of California at Los Angeles
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Extract

Peter Achinstein gives in his papers [1] and [2] interesting analyses of some problems of inductive logic and of some approaches I have proposed. I shall discuss here some of these problems in order to clarify my present position. My comments will mainly concern the variety of instances, and only briefly the analogy influence, and the inductive methods for a coordinate language.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1963 , pp. 222 - 227
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1963

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Footnotes

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The author is indebted to the National Science Foundation for the support of research in inductive probability.

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