The Structure of Scientific Inference 9780520308831


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Table of contents :
Theory and Observation 9
A Network Model of Universals 45
The Grue Paradox 75
The Logic of Induction as Explication 89
Universal Generalizations 93
Personalist Probability 103
Bayesian Confirmation Theory 135
Finiteness Laws and Causality 175
Theory as Analogy 197
Simplicity 223
Maxwells Logic of Analogy 259
A Realist Interpretation of Science 283
Index of Names 303
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