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.