10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONDEDUCTIVE»
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nondeductive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nondeductive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Elements of Reasoning
NONDEDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS As we said at the start of this chapter, a
nondeductive argument is any argument that is not meant to be valid but is meant
to confer some high degree of probability on the conclusion. In this section, we
begin by ...
Ronald Munson, Andrew Black, 2011
But a good nondeduc— tive argument is still risky. Does Moore think our
inferential knowledge of the external world is deductive or nondeductive?
Nondeductive. He says that such knowledge is based on "analogical or inductive
arguments.
The first part aimstoshowthatnecessarily N knows that P only if there isa
proposition Xsuch thatN knows that Xis nondeductive evidence for P. Parttwo
aims toshow thatthere isno suchproposition X. The first part goes likethis.
SupposeNknows ...
4
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Whatever proponents of the is/ought thesis may have thought, they have never
argued for the claim that there are no good nondeductive arguments from
exclusively nonmoral premises to moral conclusions (or vice versa). Thus, the is/
ought ...
5
Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the ...
Scientists utilize nondeductive inferences to support their inferences about
scientific claims. Sometimes they are called “inferences to the best explanation”
or “diagnostic arguments,” although judges, experts, and regulatory agencies
often call ...
Wendy Elizabeth Wagner, Rena Steinzor, 2006
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Law and Language: Current Legal Issues
Nondeductive. moral. arguments. The avoidanceof the firstperson perspective in
legal decisions creates, at first glance, the impression that who the deciding
judges are, and what their personal beliefs are, do not play a role.
Michael Freeman, Fiona Smith, 2013
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Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy
of nondeductive reasoning is inductive reasoning, many reached the conclusion
that representative realism leads inevitably to skepticism. I think one must
hesitate before accepting the above argument. First, it is not all that obvious that ...
Peter A. French, Theodore Edward Uehling, Howard K. Wettstein, 1983
In it she offers a synoptic objection to all attempts to justify deduction, whether
conventionalist or nonconventionalist, nonmetalogical or metalogical. Her
argument is pithy: (1) All justification is either nondeductive (for example,
inductive)23 or ...
9
Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of ...
Most arguments in everyday life, including those in the present study, are
nondeductive in nature and are not set in terms of a formal system. Instead, such
informal arguments consist of conclusions that are supported by reasons.
Moreover, the ...
10
Encyclopedia of Ethics
When this deductive feature of an argument form is absent, let us call that sort of
argument nondeductive. Surely, the premises of an analogical argument could all
be true and yet the conclusion could be false. An interesting question ...
Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, 2013
