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Induction (Logic)

Method of reasoning in which a body of observations is synthesized to hypothesize a general principle

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    What? where? when? why? : essays on induction, space and time, explanation inspired by the work of Wesley C. Salmon and celebrating his first visit to Australia, September-December 1978 / edited by Robert McLaughlin.

    | Date: [1982], ©1982
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    The new organon / Francis Bacon ; edited by Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne.

    Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. | Date: 2000
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    Chance, cause, reason : an inquiry into the nature of scientific evidence / Arthur W. Burks.

    Burks, Arthur W. (Arthur Walter), 1915-2008. | Date: [1977]
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    Critical rationalism : a restatement and defence / David Miller.

    Miller, David (David W.) | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    The logic of scientific inference : an introduction / Jennifer Trusted ; foreword, Peter Medawar.

    Trusted, Jennifer. | Date: 1979

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