The Counterpart Principle of Analogical Support by Structural Similarity

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Erkenntnis 79 (S6):1-16 (2014)
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We propose and investigate an Analogy Principle in the context of Unary Inductive Logic based on a notion of support by structural similarity which is often employed to motivate scientific conjectures.

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Logical foundations of probability.Rudolf Carnap - 1950 - Chicago]: Chicago University of Chicago Press.
The continuum of inductive methods.Rudolf Carnap - 1952 - [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press.
The Continuum of Inductive Methods.Rudolf Carnap - 1953 - Philosophy 28 (106):272-273.

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