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Author:   L.Jonathan Cohen
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780198750789

ISBN 10:   0198750781
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   01 February 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Part 1 The origins of the problem: an outline of the issues; the Baconian tradition in the philosophy of induction; the rise of Pascalian probability; the combination of Baconian and Pascalian themes. Part 2 The controversy about the nature of Pascalian probability: some general considerations; indifference theories; frequency theories; propensity theories; personalist theories; multi-valued logic theories; logical relation theories. Part 3 The foundations of pluralism in the analysis of probability: some logical distinctions exploited by differing analyses of Pascalian probability; the appropriateness of different conceptions of Pascalian probability to different purposes; the need to supplement Pascalian judgements by non-Pascalian ones; how are different conceptions of probability possible? Part 4 The Pascalian gradation of ampliative induction: inductive probability under a realist construal; inductive probability under a range-theoretical construal; Pascalian gradation for variative induction; inductive probability under a personalist construal. Part 5 The Baconian gradation of ampliative induction: inductive support by the method of relevant variables; the logical syntax of the method of relevant variables; some non-standard interpretations of Baconian logical syntax. Part 6 Four paradoxes about induction: the classical problem of induction; the paradox of the ravens; the ""grue"" paradox; the lottery paradox."

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