Shifting the Paradigm : : Alternative Perspectives on Induction /

Shifting the Paradigm : : Alternative Perspectives on Induction / / ed. by Paolo C. Biondi, Louis F. Groarke.

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Induction, which involves a leap from the particular to the universal, has always been a puzzling phenomenon for those attempting to investigate the origins of knowledge. Although traditionally accepted as the engine of first principles, the authority of inductive reasoning has been undermined in th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Biondi, Paolo C.,
Byrne, Christopher,
Dougherty, Jude P.,
Groarke, Louis F.,
Kelly, James,
Kostelecky, Matthew,
Loptson, Peter,
McCaskey, John P.,
McCullough, Ernest John,
Meynell, Hugo,
Novak, Joseph A.,
Rasmussen, Douglas B.,
Raymond, Dwayne,
Rescher, Nicholas,
Schollmeier, Paul,
Ziguras, Jakob,
HerausgeberIn:
Biondi, Paolo C.,
Groarke, Louis F.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 55
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Physical Description:1 online resource (536 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Hume’s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific
  • Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study
  • Intelligibility
  • Induction, Science, and Knowledge
  • Induction in the Socratic Tradition
  • Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation
  • The Problem of Example
  • The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual?
  • From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid
  • Not Induction’s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions
  • Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux
  • Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism
  • Goethe and Intuitive Induction
  • Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction”
  • Induction as a Pragmatic Resource
  • Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors’ Biographies
  • Index

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