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The War on Induction: Whewell Takes On Newton and Mill (Norton Takes On Everyone)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Peter Achinstein
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Abstract

I consider and reject William Whewell's attack on the inductivism of Isaac Newton and John Stuart Mill, as well as John Norton's attack on any universal system of inductive rules. I also explain how a system of inductive rules of the sort proposed by Newton and Mill should be understood.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 77 , Issue 5 , December 2010 , pp. 728 - 739
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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