id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_p5pgd5oy45fw3hqrz6paivkwwq Thomas Kelly Hume, Norton, and Induction without Rules 2010 16 .pdf application/pdf 4935 234 54 content of the general rules or principles that we follow in reasoning inductively. Rather, particular inductive inferences are underwritten by domainspecific facts or 'material postulates'. induction is something like this: the proponent of the material theory thinks that, once I find the material theory of induction an attractive account, in several respects. If inductive reasoning as it is understood on the material theory is less susceptible to are justified by inductions that are in turn grounded in the facts of other material In what sense are inductive inferences 'grounded in' material facts? knowledge of the material fact that licenses the induction. degrees' via induction, he must already know the material postulate that 'samples of observational knowledge and what we are justified in believing on the basis of induction thinking that skepticism about induction simply re-arises on the material theory. is not itself provided by the material theory of induction, I think. ./cache/work_p5pgd5oy45fw3hqrz6paivkwwq.pdf ./txt/work_p5pgd5oy45fw3hqrz6paivkwwq.txt