Inductive Logic
Subtitle: A Thematic Compilation
Publisher: Avi Sion
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback, e-book
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9781983769375
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Foreword; title: 1.	The Laws of Thought; title: 1.	The Law of Identity; title: 2.	The Law of Contradiction; title: 3.	The Law of the Excluded Middle; title: 2.	Credibility; title: 1.	Ground of the Laws; title: 2.	Functions of the Laws; title: 3.	More on Credibility; title: 3.	Logical Modality; title: 1.	The Singular Modalities; title: 2.	The Plural Modalities.; title: 3.	Analogies and Contrasts; title: 4.	Apodictic Knowledge; title: 4.	Contextuality; title: 1.	Statics; title: 2.	Dynamics; title: 3.	Time-Frames; title: 4.	Context Comparisons; title: 5.	Personal and Social; title: 5.	Adduction; title: 1.	Logical Probability; title: 2.	Providing Evidence; title: 3.	Weighting Evidence; title: 4.	Other Types of Probability; title: 6.	Theory Formation; title: 1.	Theorizing; title: 2.	Structure of Theories; title: 3.	Criteria; title: 4.	Control; title: 7.	Theory Selection; title: 1.	The Scientific Method; title: 2.	Compromises; title: 3.	Theory Changes; title: 4.	Exclusive Relationships; title: 8.	Synthetic Logic; title: 1.	Synthesis; title: 2.	Self-Criticism; title: 3.	Fairness; title: 9.	Actual Induction; title: 1.	The Problem; title: 2.	Induction of Particulars; title: 3.	Generalization; title: 4.	Particularization; title: 5.	Validation; title: 10.	Modal Induction; title: 1.	Knowability; title: 2.	Equality of Status; title: 3.	Stages of Induction; title: 4.	Generalization vs. Particularization; title: 5.	The Paradigm of Induction; title: 6.	The Pursuit of Integers; title: 11.	Factor Selection; title: 1.	Prediction; title: 2.	The Uniformity Principle; title: 3.	The Law of Generalization; title: 12.	Formula Revision; title: 1.	Context Changes; title: 2.	Kinds of Revision; title: 3.	Particularization; title: 13.	Phenomena; title: 1.	Empirical or Hypothetical; title: 2.	Physical or Mental; title: 3.	Concrete and Abstract; title: 4.	Presentative or Representative; title: 14.	Consciousness and the Mind; title: 1.	A Relation; title: 2.	Kinds of Consciousness; title: 3.	The Mind; title: 4.	Popular Psychology; title: 15.	Perception and Recognition; title: 1.	The Immediacy of Sense-Perception; title: 2.	Logical Conditions of Recognition; title: 3.	Other Applications; title: 16.	The Logic of Induction; title: 1.	Degrees of Being; title: 2.	Induction from Logical Possibility; title: 3.	The Novelty of My Work; title: 17.	An Inductive Logic Primer; title: 1.	Introduction; title: 2.	Induction; title: 3.	The Art of Knowing; title: 4.	Adduction in Western Philosophy; title: 18.	Intro to Phenomenology; title: 1.	What, Why and How; title: 2.	Knowledge is Based on Appearance; title: 3.	To Be or Not to Be; title: 4.	The Phenomenological Approach; title: 19.	Organizing Principles; title: 1.	The Order of Things; title: 2.	Appearance and Other Large Concepts; title: 3.	Material, Mental, Intuitive, Abstract; title: 20.	Experiences and Abstractions; title: 1.	The Objects of Perception; title: 2.	The Objects of Intuition; title: 3.	Correlations between Experiences; title: 4.	Conceptual Objects; title: 5.	Degrees of Interiority; title: 21.	Conceptualization; title: 1.	Sameness and Difference; title: 2.	Compatibility or Incompatibility; title: 3.	Words and Intentions; title: 4.	A Theory of Universals; title: 5.	Unity in Plurality; title: 22.	Logical Activities; title: 1.	Logical Attitudes; title: 2.	Principles of Adduction; title: 3.	Generalization is Justifiable; title: 4.	Syllogism Adds to Knowledge; title: 5.	Concept Formation; title: 6.	Empty Classes; title: 23.	The Paradigm of Causation; title: 1.	Causation; title: 2.	The Paradigmatic Determination; title: 24.	The Determinations of Causation; title: 1.	Strong Determinations; title: 2.	Parallelism of Strongs; title: 3.	Weak Determinations; title: 4.	Parallelism of Weaks; title: 5.	The Four Genera of Causation; title: 6.	Negations of Causation; title: 25.	Some LC Phase One Insights; title: 1.	The Significance of Certain Findings; title: 2.	Highlights of Findings; title: 3.	The Modes of Causation; title: 26.	Some LC Phase Two Insights; title: 1.	On Laws of Causation; title: 2.	Interdependence; title: 3.	Other Features of Causation; title: 27.	Knowledge of Volition, Etc.; title: 1.	Knowledge of Volition; title: 2.	Knowledge of Effort, Influence and Freedom; title: 28.	Thoughts on Induction; title: 1.	Evidence; title: 2.	Theorizing; title: 3.	Additional Remarks; title: 29.	About Causation; title: 1.	Hume’s Critique; title: 2.	Induction of Causatives; title: 3.	True of All Opposites; title: 4.	Extensional to Natural; title: 30.	Theory of Negation; title: 1.	Negation in Adduction; title: 2.	Positive and Negative Phenomena; title: 3.	Positive Experience Precedes Negation; title: 4.	Negation is an Intention; title: 5.	Pure Experience; title: 31.	The Significance of Negation; title: 1.	Formal Consequences; title: 2.	Negation and the Laws of Thought; title: 3.	Consistency is Natural; title: 4.	Status of the Logic of Causation; title: 5.	Zero, One and More; title: 32.	Contrary to Hume’s Skepticism; title: 1.	Hume’s “Problem of Induction”; title: 2.	The Principle of Induction; title: 3.	Causation, Necessity and Connection; title: 33.	More Reflections on Induction; title: 1.	The Psychology of Induction; title: 2.	The Induction of Induction; title: 3.	Some Further Remarks on Causal Logic; title: 4.	Addenda (2009); title: 34.	Contrary to Kant’s Unreason; title: 1.	Experience, Space and Time; title: 2.	Ratiocinations; title: 3.	Induction of Contents and Forms; title: 35.	Some LC Phase Three Insights; title: 1.	History of My Causation Research; title: 2.	What is Causation?; title: 3.	How is Causation Known?; title: 36.	The Existential Import Doctrine; title: 1.	Existential Import; title: 2.	Aristotle’s Teaching; title: 3.	Modern Modifications; title: 4.	Further Review; title: 5.	Reassessment; title: 6.	Further Criticism; title: Main References; title: Diagrams; title: 19.1     Existence, appearance, and reality; title: 19.2     Assumed material, mental and spiritual domains; title: 19.3     A classification of appearances; title: 36.1     Aristotelian oppositions; title: 36.2     Modified traditional; title: 36.3     Modern version; title: 36.4     Re-modified traditional; title: 36.5     Modified modern version; title: Tables; title: 24.1     Complete causation; title: 24.2     Necessary causation; title: 24.3     Partial causation; title: 24.4     Contingent causation; title: 26.1     Possible relations between any two items; title: 33.1     Matrix of complete necessary causation