William Whewell's Semantic Account of Induction

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Dethier, Corey [1 ]
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[1] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Philosophy, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
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N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
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William Whewell's account of induction differs dramatically from the one familiar from twentieth-century debates. I argue that Whewell's induction can be usefully understood by comparing the difference between his views and more standard accounts to contemporary debates between semantic and syntactic views of theories: rather than understanding inductive inference as capturing a relationship between sentences or propositions, Whewell understands it as a method for constructing a model of the world. The difference between this (semantic) view and the more familiar (syntactic) picture of induction is reflected in other aspects of Whewell's philosophy of science, particularly his treatment of consilience and the order of discovery.
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