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Aspects of Inductive Logic

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Author(s): Jaakko Hintikka
Series: Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
Publisher: North-Holland Publishing Company
Year: 1966

Language: English
Pages: 324

Edited by......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 2
Preface......Page 3
Knowledge, Acceptance, and Inductive Logic......Page 5
Concept Formation and Bayesian Decisions......Page 25
Probabilistic Inference and the Concept of Total Evidence......Page 53
Simplicity, Entropy and Inductive Logic......Page 70
Two Measures of Evidential Strength......Page 85
Semantic Information and Inductive Logic......Page 100
A Two-Dimensional Continuum of Inductive Methods......Page 117
On Inductive Generalization in Monadic First-Order Logic With Identity......Page 137
Inductive Generalization in an Ordered Universe......Page 159
Notes on the “Paradoxes of Confirmation”......Page 179
A Bayesian Approach to the Paradoxes of Confirmation......Page 202
The Paradoxes of Confirmation......Page 212
Assigning Probabilities to Logical Formulas......Page 223
Probability and the Logic of Conditionals......Page 269
Subject Index......Page 321