The Counterpart Principle of Analogical Support by Structural Similarity
Erkenntnis 79 (S6):1-16 (2014)
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We propose and investigate an Analogy Principle in the context of Unary Inductive Logic based on a notion of support by structural similarity which is often employed to motivate scientific conjectures.
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Logical Foundations of Probability.Carnap, Rudolf
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