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Observation, experiment, counting, and measurement yield immediately singular statements only, i.e., statements about singular events or states. But inductive sciences do not confine themselves to stating singular facts only. They go beyond singular facts by formulating laws of their own. Scientific laws take on the form of general statements, which say that something occurs always, or statistical statements, which say that something occurs with a given frequency.
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© 1974 PWN—Polish Scientific Publishers—Warszawa
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Ajdukiewicz, K. (1974). Inductive Sciences and Scientific Laws. In: Pragmatic Logic. Synthese Library, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2109-8_15
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