Induction, focused sampling and the law of small numbers

DOI10.1007/BF00414006MaRDI QIDQ1293053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joel Pust

Publication date 9 August 1999

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414006

zbMATH Keywords

inductive inferenceinductive logicknowledge-based deductive inferencesLaw of Small Numbersphilosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Probability and inductive logic (03B48)

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