by The poverty of deductivism The idea that inductive support is a three-place relation among hypothesis H, evidence e, and background factors Ki rather than a two-place relation between H and e has some drastic philosophical implications, which partly explains why philosophers of science have been so reluctant to endorse it. The inductivist program … aimed at doing for inductive inferences what logicians had done for deductive ones … Once the Ki enter the picture, the issue of inductive support becomes contextualized: one cannot answer it by merely looking at the features of e and H. An empirical investigation is necessary in order to establish whether the context is ‘right’ for e to be truly confirming evidence for H or not … Scientists’ knowledge of the
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The poverty of deductivism
The idea that inductive support is a three-place relation among hypothesis H, evidence e, and background factors Ki rather than a two-place relation between H and e has some drastic philosophical implications, which partly explains why philosophers of science have been so reluctant to endorse it. The inductivist program … aimed at doing for inductive inferences what logicians had done for deductive ones … Once the Ki enter the picture, the issue of inductive support becomes contextualized: one cannot answer it by merely looking at the features of e and H. An empirical investigation is necessary in order to establish whether the context is ‘right’ for e to be truly confirming evidence for H or not … Scientists’ knowledge of the context and circumstances of research is required in order to assess the validity of scientific inferences.