Norton, John D. (2014) A Material Defense of Inductive Inference. [Preprint]

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This paper develops and defends the material theory of induction as it stood in an earlier stage of its development in 2014. A more complete and later defense is provided in the open access monograph, <i>The Material Theory of Induction</i>. BSPSopen/University of Calgary Press, 2021. This paper gives an account of an inductive inference associated with Galileo's discovery of his famous law of fall. This example is also recounted in Chapter 2 of <i>The Material Theory of Induction</i>.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Norton, John D. jdnorton@pitt.edu 0000-0003-0936-5308
Keywords:	confirmation Galileo induction material probability
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User:	John Norton
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2022 04:04
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2022 04:04
Item ID:	20873
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date:	14 August 2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20873

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