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Arthur W. Burks has made major contributions to Peirce scholarship, computer science, automata theory, modal logic, and the philosophy of science; his contributions to any one of these areas would constitute a productive career most academics would envy. Disparate as these fields are, in Burks’ approach to them there are deep interconnections. And in his monumental work Chance, Cause, Reason 1 Burks manages to exploit these interconnections to provide a richly detailed account of “the ultimate nature of the knowledge acquired by the empirical sciences.” (p. 651) It does so by presenting his Presupposition Theory of Induction, a theory that provides a rich foundational analysis of “standard inductive logic” — which, according to Burks, “is the system of rules of inductive inference actually used and aspired to by the practicing scientist.” (p. 654)
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Suppe, F. (1990). Is Science Really Inductive?. In: Salmon, M.H. (eds) The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. Synthese Library, vol 206. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0987-8_1
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