On the True Method of Induction
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Investigative Induction: Real But Invisible
Hattiangadi, Jagdish (2006) On the True Method of Induction
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Investigative Induction: Real But Invisible. In [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007).
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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
| Keywords: | Bacon, Induction, Puzzle-solving, empiricism, "deception of the senses", ampliative, investigative, skepticism, Pyrrhonian, Inductive inference, deduction for experiments, experimantal method |
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| Subjects: | General Issues: Confirmation/Induction General Issues: Explanation General Issues: Experimentation |
| Conferences and Volumes: | [2007] LSE-Pitt Conference: Confirmation, Induction and Science (London, 8 - 10 March, 2007) |
| ID Code: | 3109 |
| Deposited By: | Hattiangadi, Jagdish |
| Deposited On: | 28 December 2006 |