Oxford / New York:: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1989. A square, tight copy. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked but for 1 paperclip mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Uncommon hardcover edition. Bound in the publisher's navy blue cloth, lettered in bright gold. Contains a preface and 6 chapters: 1) The Origins of the Problem; 2) The Controversy about the Nature of Pascalian Probability; 3) The Foundations of Pluralism in the Analysis of Probability; 4) The Pascalian Gradation of Ampliative Induction; 5) The Baconian Gradation of Ampliative Induction; 6) Four Paradoxes about Induction. Index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY copy./No Jacket. 8vo. x, 217pp.

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Title

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Induction and Probability

Publisher

Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York:

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

019875079X

ISBN 13

9780198750796

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good EX-LIBRARY copy.

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket.

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Two new philosophical problems surrounding the gradation of certainty began to emerge in the 17th century and are still very much alive today. One is concerned with the evaluation of inductive reasoning, whether in science, jurisprudence, or elsewhere; the other with the interpretation of the mathematical calculus of change. This book, aimed at non-specialists, investigates both problems and the extent to which they are connected. Cohen demonstrates the diversity of logical structures that are available for judgements of probability, and explores the rationale for their appropriateness in different contexts of application. Thus his study deals with the complexity of the underlying philosophical issues without simply cataloging alternative conceptions or espousing a particular "favorite" theory.

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