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Ideas for 'Bayesianism', 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' and 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things'

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

19234

'Induction' doesn't capture Greek 'epagoge', which is singulars in a mass producing the general [Peirce]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

19235

How does induction get started? [Peirce]

19236

Induction can never prove that laws have no exceptions [Peirce]

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The worst fallacy in induction is generalising one recondite property from a sample [Peirce]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]