Journal of Philosophical Logic, Vol. 24, No. 5 (Oct., 1995), pp. 525-548 (24 pages) Most standard results on structure identification in first order theories depend upon the correctness and ...

Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

IN a paper read before the Royal Statistical Society on December 18, Prof. R. A. Fisher surveyed the recent change in the outlook of mathematical statisticians. The most profound modification seems to ...

Scientists do not confirm hypotheses, they may only corroborate or decisively refute them. —excerpted from The Logic of Scientific discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959) by Karl Popper A scientist, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In a recent essay, John Norton proposes a material theory of induction, according to which all justification for inductive inference ...