A Phenomenological Treatment of Induction: Edmund Husserl on inductive reasoning and the foundation of the empirical sciences. KU Leuven
Induction is commonly regarded as a central problem for philosophy and the empirical sciences. At the same time, hardly any other problem is more tangibly present in our everyday life than induction. Our daily experience is tacitly shaped by anticipations of future behavior of natural things, artifacts, people, social infrastructures, etc. Accordingly, induction is a vital element in the formation of our empirical concepts and predictions ...