Preliminary remarks on a logic of plausible inference

Dialectica 3 (1‐2):28-35 (1949)
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It is shown by examples that inductive procedures which are commonly noticed only in the experimental sciences, are heuristically applicable also to purely mathematical questions. Similar processes are pointed out in inventive and everyday reasoning. A simple pattern of plausible inference is formulated and the bearing of these remarks on the current philosophical discussion of probability is hinted at. ‐ G. P

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10.1111/j.1746-8361.1949.tb00852.x

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