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In this chapter I shall examine the “heir apparent” of Carnap’s system of inductive logic, namely, that constructed by Jaakko Hintikka and developed further with Risto Hilpinen. Section two contains an outline of the elements of the Hintikka-Hilpinen (hereafter H-H) system, 1 including an illustrative account of their theorem for inductive generalizations and a comparison of some of their results with Carnap’s. In section three their acceptance rule for generalizations is considered. It is shown that it has a peculiar way of satisfying a consistency requirement and that it violates Salmon’s criterion of linguistic variance. Finally, four objections to the H-H rule for singular hypotheses are presented.
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© 1971 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Michalos, A.C. (1971). Hintikka and Hilpinen on Inductive Generalization. In: The Popper-Carnap Controversy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3048-9_8
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