Theoretical Concepts and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference / by Ilkka Niiniluoto, Raimo Tuomela.
Conceptual change and its connection to the development of new seien tific theories has reeently beeome an intensively discussed topic in philo sophieal literature. Even if the inductive aspects related to conceptual change have already been discussed to some extent, there has so far existed no syst...
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1973.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Theoretical concepts and inductive Inference
- 1. Problems of Inductive Systematization: the Transitivity Dilemma
- 2. Inductive Systematization Established by Theories
- 3. A Logical Framework for the Dynamics of Conceptual Change and Induction
- 2. Hintikka's Two-Dimensional Continuum of Inductive Logic
- 1. Summary of Hintikka's Two-dimensional Continuum
- 2. The Treatment of Incomplete Evidence
- 3. Inductive Probabilities of Weak Generalizations
- 1. Probabilities in the Observational Language
- 2. Evidential Theoretical Concepts
- 3. Non-Evidential Theoretical Concepts
- 4. Inductive Probabilities of Strong Generalizations
- 5. Piecewise Definable Theoretical Concepts
- 6. Epistemic Utilities and Inductive Systematization
- 1. Measures of Information and Systematic Power
- 2. Expected Epistemic Utilities of Generalizations
- 3. Competing Generalizations
- 7. Theoretical Concepts and Inductive Explanation
- 1. Explanatory Power of Theories
- 2. Inductive Explanation Illustrated
- 3. Positive Inductive Relevance, Supersessance, and Screening Off
- 4. Inductive Explanation within Hintikka's System
- 8. Corroboration and Theoretical Concepts
- 1. Theoretical and Observational Support
- 2. Measures of Corroboration Based on Positive Inductive Relevance
- 3. Hintikka's Measure of Corroboration
- 9. The Logical Indispensability of Theoretical Concepts within Inductive Systematization
- 1. The Theoretician's Dilemma: Methodological Instrumentalism Refuted
- 2. Logical Indispensability and Positive Inductive Relevance
- 3. Logical Indispensability and Rules of Acceptance
- 10. Linguistic Variance in Inductive Logic
- 1. Linguistic Invariance and Linguistic Variance
- 2. Probability Kinematics
- 3. Goodman's New Riddle of Induction
- 11. Towards a Non-Inductivist Logic of Induction
- 1. Deductivism and Inductivism
- 2. Hypothetico-Deductive and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference
- 3. The Atheoretical Thesis
- 4. Converse Deduction and Indirect Support
- 5. Conjectures.