The War on Induction: Whewell Takes On Newton and Mill (Norton Takes On Everyone)

Philosophy of Science 77 (5):728-739 (2010)
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I consider and reject William Whewell's attack on the inductivism of Isaac Newton and John Stuart Mill, as well as John Norton's attack on any universal system of inductive rules. I also explain how a system of inductive rules of the sort proposed by Newton and Mill should be understood.

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