ABSTRACT

We have seen the inadequacy of the generalization formula as an account of our inductive choices, and we have indicated the main outlines of Goodman's proposal for improving the situation. We shall not, however, pursue the technical development of this proposal further in the present section. Rather, we shall address ourselves again to general features of the theory of induction, in the light of several issues that have occupied us: in particular, we shall consider once again the justification of induction.