High Confirmation and Inductive Validity
Does a high degree of confirmation make an inductive argument valid? I will argue that it depends on the kind of question to which the argument is meant to be providing an answer. We should distinguish inductive generalization from inductive extrapolation even in cases where they might appear to hav...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-09-01
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| Series: | Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0036 |