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When I was asked to give a talk on Carnap’s late and still unpublished philosophy of induction I immediately realized that I would be unable to do this without suggesting a drastic reinterpretation of Carnap’s program. I can only hope to make this reinterpretation comprehensible by trying to give a systematic sketch of my own position on the so-called problem of induction and to describe the role of Carnap’s theory within the conceptual framework.
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Stegmüller, W. (1977). Carnap’s Normative Theory of Inductive Probability. In: Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1132-7_5
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