The Foundations of Scientific Inference (Original Edition)

by Wesley C. Salmon

Book Overview

Not since Ernest Nagel\u2019s 1939 monograph on the theory of probability has there been a comprehensive elementary survey of the philosophical problems of probablity and induction. This is an authoritative and up-to-date treatment of the subject, and yet it is relatively brief and nontechnical. Hume\u2019s skeptical arguments regarding the justification of induction are taken as a point of departure, and a variety of traditional and contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822951185
• ISBN13: 9780822951186
• Release Date: June 1967
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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