Analytics Quote by Karl Popper

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

— Gian-Carlo Rota

In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“We may put it in this way: Deduction depends on Induction, if general propositions are only known to us through the facts: Induction depends…

— Carveth Read

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

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

— Jim Propp

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally…

— Gregory Bateson

“same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted”

— Morris Kline

“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

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

— Henri Poincare

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