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- catalog abstract ""Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. No matter how many experimental tests a hypothesis passes, nothing can be legitimately inferred about its truth or probable truth." "But physical theory routinely predicts the values of observable magnitudes to many places of decimals and within very small ranges of error. The chance of this sort of predictive success without a true theory seems so remote that the possibility should be dismissed. This suggests that Hume's argument must be wrong; but there is still no consensus on where exactly the flaw in the argument lies. Howson argues that there is no flaw, and examines the implications of this disturbing conclusion for the relation between science and its empirical base."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12088608.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""But physical theory routinely predicts the values of observable magnitudes to many places of decimals and within very small ranges of error. The chance of this sort of predictive success without a true theory seems so remote that the possibility should be dismissed. This suggests that Hume's argument must be wrong; but there is still no consensus on where exactly the flaw in the argument lies. Howson argues that there is no flaw, and examines the implications of this disturbing conclusion for the relation between science and its empirical base."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. No matter how many experimental tests a hypothesis passes, nothing can be legitimately inferred about its truth or probable truth."".
- catalog description "1. Hume's Argument -- 2. Reliabilism -- 3. Realism and the No-Miracles Argument -- 4. Probabilism -- 5. Deductivism -- 6. The Naturaustic Fallacy -- 7. 'A New Species of Logic' -- 8. The Logic of Scientific Discovery -- 9. Chance and Probability -- Coda: 'Of Miracles'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.".
- catalog extent "261 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hume's problem.".
- catalog identifier "0198250371 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hume's problem.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Hume's problem.".
- catalog subject "161 21".
- catalog subject "BC91 .H69 2000".
- catalog subject "Hume, David, 1711-1776 Contributions in logical induction.".
- catalog subject "Hume, David, 1711-1776.".
- catalog subject "Induction (Logic)".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Hume's Argument -- 2. Reliabilism -- 3. Realism and the No-Miracles Argument -- 4. Probabilism -- 5. Deductivism -- 6. The Naturaustic Fallacy -- 7. 'A New Species of Logic' -- 8. The Logic of Scientific Discovery -- 9. Chance and Probability -- Coda: 'Of Miracles'.".
- catalog title "Hume's problem : induction and the justification of belief / Colin Howson.".
- catalog type "text".