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We may be far from an adequate account of good scientific method, but however such an account might turn out, it is hard to believe that it would not have a significant contrast. There will presumably be logically consistent ways of assimilating evidence which count as bad science, or unscientific or outright mad. To this extent, at the very least, scientific method will have its presuppositions.1 An examination of the presuppositions of scientific induction is nothing other than an analysis of scientific method itself.
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Skyrms, B. (1990). Presuppositions of Induction. 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_15
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