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Is there such a thing as formal inductive logic? It seems to me that whether or not an inductive argument is good or not depends on its semantic content, not just its syntactic form, which makes it impossible to formalize in the way that deductive logic is formalizable.
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April 5, 2006

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Richard Heck
April 6, 2006 (changed April 6, 2006) Permalink

There have been several attempts to formalize an inductive logic, but none that have been as uniformly successful as formalizations of deductive logic. See the Stanford Encyclopdia entry for more.

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