Induction as vindication

Philosophy of Science 31 (3):197-231 (1964)
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1. I shall attempt in this paper to give a rounded, if schematic, account of the concept of probability. My central concern will be to clarify the sense in which law-like statements (including 'statistical' law-like statements) are made probable by observational data which, in a sense equally demanding analysis, 'accord' with them

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On vindicating induction.Wesley C. Salmon - 1963 - Philosophy of Science 30 (3):252-261.
The logical character of the principle of induction.Herbert Feigl - 1934 - Philosophy of Science 1 (1):20-29.

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