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The Foundations of Scientific Inference

By Wesley Salmon

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
1967
ISBN
0822951185, 9780822951186
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2150319 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
169\169
DPI
200
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Not since Ernest Nagel’s 1939 monograph on the theory of probability has there been a comprehensive elementary survey of the philosophical problems of probablity and induction.  This is an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the subject, and yet it is relatively brief and nontechnical.Hume’s skeptical arguments regarding the justification of induction are taken as a point of departure, and a variety of traditional and contemporary ways of dealing with this problem are considered.  The author then sets forth his own criteria of adequacy for interpretations of probability.  Utilizing these criteria he analyzes contemporary theories of probability , as well as the older classical and subjective interpretations.

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