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Reichenbach and the problem of induction
Cooley, Kenneth W.
Cooley, Kenneth W.
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1965-06
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The research which resulted in this thesis began with the intention of providing an analysis of the general problem of justifying induction. The reading of a broad sample of the writings of a number of authors soon revealed, however, that an analysis of the general problem of the justification was too broad a topic for a Master's Thesis. However, this reading revealed that one author, Hans Reichenbach, had provided probably the most significant contribution on the problem since Hume. Thus, a decision was made to narrow the topic to a consideration of Reichenbach's theory of induction.
Biographical facts about Reichenbach include the following: He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1891, and he died in California in 1953. He successively served as Privatdozent of the College of Engineering at Stuttgart, Professor of philosophy in the universities of Berlin, Istanbul, and California. He has been recognized as the leading figure of the "Berlin group" in the development of recent logical empiricism.
All sources of material have been properly documented in the thesis, but one source should be emphasized. While I have not duplicated his arguments, several important ideas contained in Chapter Three were inspired by portions of Jerrold Katz's excellent book, The Problem of Induction and Its Solution. Even so, my conclusions are quite different from those reached by Katz
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I. Introduction -- II.Induction: The frequency interpretation -- III. Induction: The justification -- IV. Some concluding remaks
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Thesis (M.A.)-- Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Philosophy
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