Memes with the Watson keyword “induction”

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Newton's Discovery of Gravity as an Example of Induction in Science

All the knowledge we possess of external objects is founded upon experience, which furnishes facts; and the comparison of these facts establishes relations, from which induction, the intuitive belief that like causes will produce like effects, leads to general laws. Thus, experience teaches that bodies fall at the…

Jan 11, 2012 1

astronomy
induction
philosophy

The Problem of Induction

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from…

Sep 14, 2011 1

empiricism
induction
philosophy