And here the need of Inductive Logic is most conspicuous: how can we prove our premises when they are universal propositions?
And we shall find that there is a method of Inductive Logic, resting on the principle of Causation.
To insist upon the cogency of 'negative instances' was Bacon's great contribution to Inductive Logic.
It is the problem of inductive logic to establish, if possible, a criterion of evidence whereby the truth or falsehood of propositions may be judged (ยง 2).
This task is left to inductive logic, the aim of which is to establish, if possible, a test of material truth and falsity.
Bacon taught men to labour in inferring from particular to universal, to lay as much stress on induction as on deduction, and to think and speak of inductive reasoning, inductive science, inductive logic.
And the problem of Inductive Logic may be summed up in two questions: how to ascertain the laws of nature; and how, after having ascertained them, to follow them into their results.
Inductive Logic, as we now understand it--the Logic of Observation and Explanation--was first formulated and articulated to a System of Logic by J.
Mr. Venn) that the question of Modality belongs properly to Scientific or Inductive Logic, and is out of place in Formal Logic.
The business of Inductive Logic is to provide rules and models (such as the Syllogism and its rules are for ratiocination) to which if inductive arguments conform, those arguments are conclusive, and not otherwise.
Induction is proof, the inferring something unobserved from something observed; and to provide a proper test of proof is the special purpose of inductive logic.
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