On the Foundation of Ampliative Reasoning
Resource ID
24385
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
description
Explicative and ampliative reasoning. Laplace and Mill on induction. Distinction between uniformity (what does happen) and law (what was compelled to happen). Criticism of Laplace's treatment of probability. CSP's views correspond to those of Venn, but derived independently. The notion of "equally possible." (Cf. "objective probability" in Venn, Logic of Chance, 1866.) CSP gives 1864 as the year he arrived at his conception of probability.
general index
Induction, Laplace, Pierre Simon de, Law(s), Logic (modal see Modality), Mill John Stuart, Possibility, Probability and Chance, Reason, ampliative Reasoning, Uniformity (see also Nature uniformity of), Venn John
pagination
pp. 1-23, incomplete
Date
1910-10-24/1910-10-28
number
MS0660_018
abbreviated title
(AR)
date (Robin)
1910-10-24/1910-10-28