Induction and Critical Rationalism

AT:

It starts with experience of particular things and ends up with more generalized truths.

AM:

What happens in between? What is the method? Feel free to point to some literature you agree with.

AT:

Abstraction. Induction.

AM:

I guess you would point to IToE for abstraction, but do you have any details on induction?

He already answered that negatively:

Given this context, I find a lot of the discussion afterwards strange because it e.g. treats “induction” like an established, meaningful concept, not a pre-hypothesis where someone has some sort of idea or lead but hasn’t yet formed it into a specific hypothesis.

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