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Full Idea
Our inductions become increasingly explicit and deliberate, and in the fulness of time we even rise above induction, to the hypothetico-deductive method.
Gist of Idea
More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method
Source
Willard Quine (On the Nature of Moral Values [1978], p.57)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Theories and Things' [Harvard 1981], p.57
A Reaction
This seems to defer to Hempel's account of scientific theorising. I wander what exactly 'rising above' means?
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |