Browsing by Subject "confirmation"

In this thesis, I develop an account of classificatory induction that gives, for any observation report, a theory that contains all inductive consequences of the observation report. Such a theory is called the /maximal plausible generalisation/ of the observation report, and it is shown to be consistent, unique for each observation report, and to capture nicely the intuitive notion of inductive consequence by being the most informative generalisation that is still plausible. In the course of defining the maximal plausible generalisation, I present the conditions of entailment, consistency and plausibility, which any relation of inductive consequence should observe. These conditions also hold for the maximal plausible generalisation.