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Modern inductive logic, conceived as a theory of inductive probabilities, is intended to be a useful instrument for learning from experience not only in objective contexts, where there is some underlying objective probability process, but also in other, non-objective contexts. However, for designing inductive systems, objective applications form the primary challenge, for they provide the objective, but unknown, goal which has to be approached in a rational way on the basis of increasing experimental evidence. Hence, in the following we will presuppose an underlying probability process, except when otherwise stated.
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Kuipers, T.A.F. (1988). Inductive Analogy by Similarity and Proximity. In: Helman, D.H. (eds) Analogical Reasoning. Synthese Library, vol 197. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7811-0_14
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