5854 | Nobody fears a disease which nobody has yet caught [Aristotle] |
12271 | Induction is the progress from particulars to universals [Aristotle] |
5714 | Even simple facts are hard to believe at first hearing [Lucretius] |
17027 | Science deduces propositions from phenomena, and generalises them by induction [Newton] |
7446 | The idea of inductive evidence, around 1660, made Hume's problem possible [Hume, by Hacking] |
16845 | The whole theory of induction rests on causes [Mill] |
16843 | Mill's methods (Difference,Agreement,Residues,Concomitance,Hypothesis) don't nail induction [Mill, by Lipton] |
8624 | Induction is merely psychological, with a principle that it can actually establish laws [Frege] |
8626 | In science one observation can create high probability, while a thousand might prove nothing [Frege] |
22200 | If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle] |
16941 | Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine] |
16940 | Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine] |
6955 | Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman] |
7369 | Brains are essentially anticipation machines [Dennett] |
16804 | Induction is repetition, instances, deduction, probability or causation [Lipton] |
9163 | If we only use induction to assess induction, it is empirically indefeasible, and hence a priori [Field,H] |
6352 | Enumerative induction gives a universal judgement, while statistical induction gives a proportion [Pollock/Cruz] |
15708 | Inductive success is rewarded with more induction [Gelman] |
16254 | Induction leaps into the unknown, but usually lands safely [Maudlin] |
4584 | The problem of induction is how to justify our belief in the uniformity of nature [Baggini /Fosl] |
18690 | Induction is said to just compare properties of categories, but the type of property also matters [Murphy] |
14953 | Induction is reasoning from the observed to the unobserved [Ladyman/Ross] |
22176 | Induction is inferences from examined to unexamined instances of a given kind [Okasha] |
18609 | Psychologists use 'induction' as generalising a property from one category to another [Machery] |
18610 | 'Ampliative' induction infers that all members of a category have a feature found in some of them [Machery] |
14551 | If causation were necessary, the past would fix the future, and induction would be simple [Mumford/Anjum] |
14571 | The only full uniformities in nature occur from the essences of fundamental things [Mumford/Anjum] |