Demonstrative Induction: Its Significant Role in the History of Physics

1 September 1973

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science

Vol. 40 (3) , 360-372
https://doi.org/10.1086/288537

Abstract

It is argued in this paper that the valid argument forms coming under the general heading of Demonstrative Induction have played a highly significant role in the history of theoretical physics. This situation was thoroughly appreciated by several earlier philosophers of science and deserves to be more widely known and understood.

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