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Ideas for 'talk', 'Causal Powers' and 'Every Thing Must Go'

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14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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Induction is reasoning from the observed to the unobserved [Ladyman/Ross]

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

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Conjunctions explain nothing, and so do not give a reason for confidence in inductions [Harré/Madden]

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Hume's atomic events makes properties independent, and leads to problems with induction [Harré/Madden]

14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction

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Inductive defences of induction may be rule-circular, but not viciously premise-circular [Ladyman/Ross]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

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Contraposition may be equivalent in truth, but not true in nature, because of irrelevant predicates [Harré/Madden]

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The items put forward by the contraposition belong within different natural clusters [Harré/Madden]

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The possibility that all ravens are black is a law depends on a mechanism producing the blackness [Harré/Madden]