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- Brill
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- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0165-9227
- eISSN
- 1875-6735
- DOI
- 10.1163/18756735-90000581
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Abstract
HINTIKKA AND WHEWELL ON ARISTOTELIAN INDUCTION Ilkka NIINILUOTO University of Helsinki Aristotle is one of the early masters of analytic philosophy who has attracted the attention of Jaakko Hintikka (see Hintikka, 1973). Inductive inference is one of the main areas of Hintikka's own systematic work within the philosophy of science. So it is almost inevitable that Hintikka has also combined his interests and written a paper on Aristotle's account on induction (Hintikka, 1980). As Hintikka has always enjoyed philosophical argumentation and de bate, it is equally inevitable that his interpretation of epagoge poses an important challenge to the Received View among Aristotle schol ars. In this paper, I shall compare Hintikka's treatment to William Whewell's criticism of Aristotle. Whewell's paper was first publish ed in 1850 and then largely forgotten - or at least ignored by later scholars. Its interpretation also deviates from the Received View, but in a way that is different from, and perhaps in some respects more plausible, than Hintikka's account 130 years later. 1. Aristotle on epagoge Aristotle's term epagoge is usually translated as induction. It occurs, apparently in different senses, in the major works on rhetoric, topics, and analytics. The interpretation of these short
Journal
Grazer Philosophische Studien – Brill
Published: Aug 12, 1994