How To Do Without Inductive Logic |
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Authors: | Musgrave Alan |
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Institution: | (1) Philosophy Department, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | This paper defends deductivism, the view that the only valid arguments are deductivity valid arguments, and that deductive logic is the only logic that we have or need. Inductive arguments are construed as valid deductive enthymemes. Some of these, with general epistemic principles as missing premises, may be sound as well as valid – thus solving the philosophical problem of induction. But that problem is not to be trivialised by regarding the epistemic principles as analytic truths, as Pargetter and Bigelow have recently suggested. |
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