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Inductive Logic

A Thematic Compilation by Avi Sion

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Table of Contents

 

Foreword

1.       The Laws of Thought

1.      The Law of Identity

2.      The Law of Contradiction

3.      The Law of the Excluded Middle

2.       Credibility

1.      Ground of the Laws

2.      Functions of the Laws

3.      More on Credibility

3.       Logical Modality

1.      The Singular Modalities

2.      The Plural Modalities.

3.      Analogies and Contrasts

4.      Apodictic Knowledge

4.       Contextuality

1.      Statics

2.      Dynamics

3.      Time-Frames

4.      Context Comparisons

5.      Personal and Social

5.       Adduction

1.      Logical Probability

2.      Providing Evidence

3.      Weighting Evidence

4.      Other Types of Probability

6.       Theory Formation

1.      Theorizing

2.      Structure of Theories

3.      Criteria

4.      Control

7.       Theory Selection

1.      The Scientific Method

2.      Compromises

3.      Theory Changes

4.      Exclusive Relationships

8.       Synthetic Logic

1.      Synthesis

2.      Self-Criticism

3.      Fairness

9.       Actual Induction

1.      The Problem

2.      Induction of Particulars

3.      Generalization

4.      Particularization

5.      Validation

10.         Modal Induction

1.      Knowability

2.      Equality of Status

3.      Stages of Induction

4.      Generalization vs. Particularization

5.      The Paradigm of Induction

6.      The Pursuit of Integers

11.         Factor Selection

1.      Prediction

2.      The Uniformity Principle

3.      The Law of Generalization

12.         Formula Revision

1.      Context Changes

2.      Kinds of Revision

3.      Particularization

13.         Phenomena

1.      Empirical or Hypothetical

2.      Physical or Mental

3.      Concrete and Abstract

4.      Presentative or Representative

14.         Consciousness and the Mind

1.      A Relation

2.      Kinds of Consciousness

3.      The Mind

4.      Popular Psychology

15.         Perception and Recognition

1.      The Immediacy of Sense-Perception

2.      Logical Conditions of Recognition

3.      Other Applications

16.         The Logic of Induction

1.      Degrees of Being

2.      Induction from Logical Possibility

3.      The Novelty of My Work

17.         An Inductive Logic Primer

1.      Introduction

2.      Induction

3.      The Art of Knowing

4.      Adduction in Western Philosophy

18.         Intro to Phenomenology

1.      What, Why and How

2.      Knowledge is Based on Appearance

3.      To Be or Not to Be

4.      The Phenomenological Approach

19.         Organizing Principles

1.      The Order of Things

2.      Appearance and Other Large Concepts

3.      Material, Mental, Intuitive, Abstract

20.         Experiences and Abstractions

1.      The Objects of Perception

2.      The Objects of Intuition

3.      Correlations between Experiences

4.      Conceptual Objects

5.      Degrees of Interiority

21.         Conceptualization

1.      Sameness and Difference

2.      Compatibility or Incompatibility

3.      Words and Intentions

4.      A Theory of Universals

5.      Unity in Plurality

22.         Logical Activities

1.      Logical Attitudes

2.      Principles of Adduction

3.      Generalization is Justifiable

4.      Syllogism Adds to Knowledge

5.      Concept Formation

6.      Empty Classes

23.         The Paradigm of Causation

1.      Causation

2.      The Paradigmatic Determination

24.         The Determinations of Causation

1.      Strong Determinations

2.      Parallelism of Strongs

3.      Weak Determinations

4.      Parallelism of Weaks

5.      The Four Genera of Causation

6.      Negations of Causation

25.         Some LC Phase One Insights

1.      The Significance of Certain Findings

2.      Highlights of Findings

3.      The Modes of Causation

26.         Some LC Phase Two Insights

1.      On Laws of Causation

2.      Interdependence

3.      Other Features of Causation

27.         Knowledge of Volition, Etc.

1.      Knowledge of Volition

2.      Knowledge of Effort, Influence and Freedom

28.         Thoughts on Induction

1.      Evidence

2.      Theorizing

3.      Additional Remarks

29.         About Causation

1.      Hume’s Critique

2.      Induction of Causatives

3.      True of All Opposites

4.      Extensional to Natural

30.         Theory of Negation

1.      Negation in Adduction

2.      Positive and Negative Phenomena

3.      Positive Experience Precedes Negation

4.      Negation is an Intention

5.      Pure Experience

31.         The Significance of Negation

1.      Formal Consequences

2.      Negation and the Laws of Thought

3.      Consistency is Natural

4.      Status of the Logic of Causation

5.      Zero, One and More

32.         Contrary to Hume’s Skepticism

1.      Hume’s “Problem of Induction”

2.      The Principle of Induction

3.      Causation, Necessity and Connection

33.         More Reflections on Induction

1.      The Psychology of Induction

2.      The Induction of Induction

3.      Some Further Remarks on Causal Logic

4.      Addenda (2009)

34.         Contrary to Kant’s Unreason

1.      Experience, Space and Time

2.      Ratiocinations

3.      Induction of Contents and Forms

35.         Some LC Phase Three Insights

1.      History of My Causation Research

2.      What is Causation?

3.      How is Causation Known?

36.         The Existential Import Doctrine

1.      Existential Import

2.      Aristotle’s Teaching

3.      Modern Modifications

4.      Further Review

5.      Reassessment

6.      Further Criticism

Main References

 

Diagrams

19.1     Existence, appearance, and reality

19.2     Assumed material, mental and spiritual domains

19.3     A classification of appearances

36.1     Aristotelian oppositions

36.2     Modified traditional

36.3     Modern version

36.4     Re-modified traditional

36.5     Modified modern version

 

Tables

24.1     Complete causation

24.2     Necessary causation

24.3     Partial causation

24.4     Contingent causation

26.1     Possible relations between any two items

33.1     Matrix of complete necessary causation

 

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