id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4477 Inductionism - Wikipedia .html text/html 1159 241 49 This concept is considered one of the two pillars of the old view of the philosophy of science, together with verifiability.[1] An application of inductionism can show how experimental evidence can confirm or inductively justify the belief in generalization and the laws of nature.[2] For example, in Prior Analytics, he proposed an inductive syllogism, which served to establish the primary and immediate proposition.[3] For scholars, this constitutes the principle of demonstrative science.[3] The Greek philosopher, however, did not develop a detailed theory of induction.[4] Some sources even state that the Aristotelian conceptualization of induction is different from its modern mainstream interpretations due to its position that inductive arguments are deductively valid.[5] Inductionism is also said to be based on Newtonian physics.[1] This is evident in Isaac Newton's Rule of Reasoning in Philosophy, which articulated his belief that it is imperative to cover the unobservably small features of the world through a methodology that has a strong empirical base.[7] Here, the speculative hypothesis was replaced by induction from premises obtained through observation and experiment.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4477.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4477.txt