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In his great work, The Organon, Aristotle pointed out that “induction is a passage from particulars to universals” [McKeon, 1941]. Starting with him, induction has been studied for more than two thousand years. Many philosophers have made important contributions to the subject; they include Bacon, Mill, Hume, Herschel, Poincar´e, Peirce, Reichenbach, Carnap, and Popper. The Chinese logician Mo [1993] has also made a profound study of the subtleties of induction. Before exploring induction theoretically, we will give an overview of the relevant concepts.
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Li, W. (2014). Inductive Inference. In: Mathematical Logic. Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic, vol 25. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0862-0_9
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