When Induction Was About Concepts


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When Induction Was About Concepts is by John McCaskey. He says that what was meant by induction has changed over the centuries. There is a link to a draft here. The article is scheduled to appear in a book next year, Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

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When Induction Was About Concepts is by John McCaskey. He says that what was meant by induction has changed over the centuries. There is a link to a draft here. The article is scheduled to appear in a book next year, Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

Interesting references. Thank you.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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it's interesting to contrast what McCaskey's article says about definition and essence -- especially in his examples of cholera, Ohm's Law, and tides -- to those of Karl Popper as opined is his Two Kinds of Definitions (link to an OL thread about TKoD and with another link to it).

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