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Single Idea 21748

[filed under theme 14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction ]

Full Idea

Our inductions become increasingly explicit and deliberate, and in the fulness of time we even rise above induction, to the hypothetico-deductive method.

Gist of Idea

More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method

Source

Willard Quine (On the Nature of Moral Values [1978], p.57)

Book Ref

Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.57


A Reaction

This seems to defer to Hempel's account of scientific theorising. I wander what exactly 'rising above' means?