In the eyes of the upholders of inductive logic, a principle of induction is of supreme importance for scientific method: '...this principle', says Reichenbach, 'determines the truth of scientific ...

This is an introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. The book has been designed to offer maximal accessibility to the widest ...

We presuppose that participants in the seminar have a basic knowledge of symbolic logic. We do not plan to talk about modal logic, inductive logic, or probability theory, simply because the scope must ...

This is an introduction to logic and the axiomatization of set theory from a unique standpoint. Philosophical considerations, which are often ignored or treated casually, are here given careful ...