Rationality postulates for induction

  • Authors:
  • Peter A. Flach

  • Affiliations:
  • Tilburg University, the Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • TARK '96 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

I study the process of inductive hypothesis formation from two perspectives: finding general rules that explain given specific evidence, and finding general rules that are confirmed by the evidence. Both forms of hypothesis formation are axiomatised on the metalevel of consequence relations, which provides us with a set of rationality postulates for various forms of induction.