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work_xquxy34frja4tmcbokhhpna5z4	John P. McCaskey	Reviving material theories of induction	2020	26	.pdf	application/pdf	9952	679	62	attempt to treat induction formally (Norton, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2019). The distinction between formal and material theories of induction was first drawn, at least facts, not the schema, Norton says, power the inductive inference. inference" are Norton's slogans for his material theory of induction. But, by Norton's understanding, formal inductive methods differ from deductive or but not universally true, and that fact, Norton says, makes any inference using the principle an inferences that Norton must class as inductive. inductive theories of Socrates, Valla, Bacon, and Whewell as material, not formal. someone might find a formal theory that works or an inductive inference inexplicable by a between material and formal theories of induction. Norton insists it is not any formal rules of reasoning that warrant inductive inference; it is John Norton is right that trying to treat induction as a formal sort of inference leads to 	./cache/work_xquxy34frja4tmcbokhhpna5z4.pdf	./txt/work_xquxy34frja4tmcbokhhpna5z4.txt