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    Nathan Stemmer

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This is a modified version of a paper presented by the author under the title ‘Induction and Innate Ideas’ at the Second Conference of the Israel Society for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Ramat-Aviv, April 1970.

I am indebted to Prof. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel and Dr Asa Kasher for helpful criticisms of earlier drafts of the present paper.

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Stemmer, N. Three problems in induction. Synthese 23, 287–308 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413631

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