An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something from Nothing 9780773575769

Through a study of argument, science, art, and human intelligence, Louis Groarke explores and builds on a line of Aristo

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An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something from Nothing
 9780773575769

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 A New (Old) Theory of Induction
2 Before and after Hume
3 A "Deductive" Account of Induction
4 Five Levels of Induction
5 Moral Induction
6 Complete Syllogistic: The Hamiltonian Notation
7 A History of Intuitive Understanding
8 Creativity: The Art of Induction
9 Where Science Comes to an End
Bibliography
Index
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