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High Confirmation and Inductive Validity Cover
By: David Botting  
Open Access
|Nov 2016

Abstract

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 have the same answer, and also from confirmation of a hypothesis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0036 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6059 | Journal ISSN: 0860-150X
Language: English
Page range: 119 - 142
Published on: Nov 23, 2016
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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