Artificial Quote by Herbert Wilf

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of…

— Simon Blackburn

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

— C. D. Broad

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of…

— A.J. Ayer

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

— Francis Bacon

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of…

— William Stanley Jevons

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

— Ian Hacking

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim…

— Alan F. Chalmers

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

— Gian-Carlo Rota