Hattiangadi, Jagdish (2006) On the True Method of Induction or Investigative Induction: Real But Invisible. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Scientists apply Bacon’s investigative induction by first cataloguing experimental discrepancies among apparent natures of things. Induction begins by multiplying discrepancies, thus creating a puzzle with multiple clues. Solved puzzles thus give us power to produce those unusual, discrepant effects. Bacon’s experimental method, however, is not empiricist. Grasping things empirically, like receiving impressions on a wax tablet, presupposes that our senses cannot deceive us whenever we are deceived: we err in our interpretations. Empiricism thus leaves no objective discrepancies to resolve, as deception resides in our interpretation. Scientific induction, for all its success, becomes invisible to modern empiricist methodologists

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Hattiangadi, Jagdish
Keywords:	Bacon, Induction, Puzzle-solving, empiricism, "deception of the senses", ampliative, investigative, skepticism, Pyrrhonian, Inductive inference, deduction for experiments, experimantal method
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Experimentation
Depositing User:	Jagdish Hattiangadi
Date Deposited:	28 Dec 2006
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:14
Item ID:	3109
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Experimentation
Date:	2006
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3109

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