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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?