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Physical Intuition as Inductive Support

Comments on Wolfgang Spohn’s “Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes”

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Wolfgang Spohn’s paper I think clearly places him in the forefront of research on the theory of lawlikeness, and simultaneously on the methodology of inductive reasoning.

This paper was presented at the conference “Induction and Deduction in the Sciences” organized under the auspices of the European Science Foundation by the Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna, 7–9 July, 2002. This conference took place immediately after a conference on Karl Popper in Vienna; I thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to criticize Sir Karl without delay (§VI below) for having persisted in his well-known opposition to inductive reasoning.

A paper similar in content, Spohn (2002), has appeared in Erkenntnis 57.

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Köhler, E. (2004). Physical Intuition as Inductive Support. In: Stadler, F. (eds) Induction and Deduction in the Sciences. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2196-1_10

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