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Induction is the jumping from the particular to the general—for instance, from sample to population. And inductivism is the philosophical doctrine according to which all the scientific hypotheses are obtained by induction from empirical data—as even the great Bertrand Russell believed. According to the empiricist tradition, the sciences of facts, by contrast to the mathematical ones, would be inductive.
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Bunge, M. (2012). Does Inductive Logic Work?. In: Evaluating Philosophies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 295. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4408-0_12
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