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(2004) Induction and deduction in the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer.
Induction and deduction in the philosophy of science
a critical account since the Methodenstreit
Friedrich Stadler
pp. 1-15
viewed scientific inquiry as a progression from observations to general principles and back to observation. He maintained that the scientist should induce explanatory principles from the phenomena to be explained, and then deduce statements about the phenomena from premisses which include these principles.1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2196-1_1
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Stadler, F. (2004)., Induction and deduction in the philosophy of science: a critical account since the Methodenstreit, in F. Stadler (ed.), Induction and deduction in the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-15.
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