Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: I offer a meta-level analysis of realist arguments for the reliability of ampliative reasoning about the unobservable.We can distinguish form-driven and content-driven arguments for realism: form-driven arguments appeal to the form of inductive inferences, whilst content-driven arguments appeal to their specific content.After regimenting the realism debate in these terms, I will argue that the content-driven arguments are preferable.Along the way I will discuss how my analysis relates to John Norton's recent, more general thesis that the grounds for licit induction are always material.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Juha Saatsi
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2291557712