The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accomp

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Charles Peirce’s Illustrations of the Logic of Science is an early work in the philosophy of science and the official birthplace of pragmatism. It contains Pe

From the very beginning of their investigation of human reasoning, philosophers have identified two other forms of reasoning, besides deduction, which we now ca

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