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Confirmation Theory

http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/confirma.htm

Article by Michael Huemer defending inductive inference against Hume's argument by appeal to `inference to the best explanation', contrasting his approach to those of Goodman and Hempel.

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Conjectures

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/Conjectures/

PhD thesis of Peter Flach, investigating the `logic of induction' from philosophical and machine-learning perspectives.

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Mathematical Induction

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/logsys/math-ind.htm

Lecture notes by Peter Suber, explaining the difference between inductive inference and mathematical induction (which is a species of deductive inference).

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The Problem of Induction

http://dieoff.org/page126.htm

Essay by Karl Popper, arguing that there is no such thing as inductive inference.

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