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work_5ja4tkkegvfajbmj5gxagb7yei	Kent Johnson	Quantitative realizations of philosophy of science: William Whewell and statistical methods	2011	11	.pdf	application/pdf	13106	911	63	In this paper, I examine William Whewell's (1794–1866) 'Discoverer's Induction', and argue that it supplies a strikingly accurate characterization of the logic behind many statistical methods, exploratory data sense, I mean certain wide and general fields of intelligible relation, such as Space, Number, Cause, Likeness; while by Conception Regarding the related question of whether we can separate our ideas (or conceptions) from the external facts, Whewell is firm: we cannot (e.g., I, A reasonably good explication of a conception can be the basis of a colligation of facts, which in turn can point the way to an even more data came, the right kind of statistical test to perform and concomitant inference to draw, identifying the number of unobserved factors, components, dimensions, etc. We now turn to the most central aspects of the 'discovery' component of Whewell's philosophy of science: the explication of conceptions and the colligation of facts.	./cache/work_5ja4tkkegvfajbmj5gxagb7yei.pdf	./txt/work_5ja4tkkegvfajbmj5gxagb7yei.txt