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An explanatory hypothesis constructing scheme in William Whewell’s theory of knowledge.

Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Mon, 10/13/2025 - 21:38

The paper aims to show that turning to the original works of William Whewell, the author of the hypothetico-deductive model of substantiation of scientific knowledge, can force us to return once again to the conversation about the content of the inference leading to knowledge. Positivists have consolidated what Larry Laudan calls «consequentialism» – the idea that the only significant form of evidential support for a theory is the empirical confirmation of its consequences.

W. Whewell: Induction and Deduction in Novum Organon Renovatum

Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:54

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The paper aims to expose the induction – deduction relation within W. Whewell’s treatise «Novum Organon Renovatum». Since Aristotle’s time. induction and deduction have been interpreted as independent and even «opposite» inferences (ways of connecting premises and conclusions), but this intuition is violated in W. Whewell’s works. Based on contemporary practice of some specific natural sciences W.