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Ideas for 'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Knowledge:Readings in Cont.Epist' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

21748	More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]
	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.
	From: Willard Quine (On the Nature of Moral Values [1978], p.57)
	A reaction: This seems to defer to Hempel's account of scientific theorising. I wander what exactly 'rising above' means?

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

3760	Predictions are bound to be arbitrary if they depend on the language used [Bernecker/Dretske]
	Full Idea: The new riddle of induction ('grue') seems to demonstrate that sound inductive inferences are arbitrary because they depend on the actual language people use to formulate predictions.
	From: Bernecker / Dretske (Knowledge:Readings in Cont.Epist [2000], Pt.V Int)