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Immodest Inductive Methods by David Lewis is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Immodest Inductive Methods about?
Inductive methods can be used to estimate the accuracies of inductive methods. Call a method __immodest__ if it estimates that it is at least as accurate as any of its rivals. It would be unreasonable to adopt any but an immodest method. Under certain assumptions, exactly one of Carnap's lambda-methods is immodest. This may seem to solve the problem of choosing among the lambda-methods; but sometimes the immodest lambda-method is λ = 0, which it would not be reasonable to adopt. We should therefore reconsider the assumptions that led to this conclusion: for instance, the measure of accuracy.
Who reads Immodest Inductive Methods?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- David Lewis
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1971
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)