Hume, Norton, and Induction without Rules

Thomas A. F. Kelly

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Does Hume's skeptical critique of inductive reasoning depend for its force on the assumption that such reasoning is a matter of following general rules? I explore this question in connection with John Norton's “Material Theory of Induction.”

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2003Inference to the Best Explanation 1967The Foundations Of Scientific Inference 2003A Material Theory of Induction 2010Inference to the Best Explanation 2003A Little Survey of Induction 2001What did Hume Really Show about Induction?

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