ENUMERATIVE INDUCTION

摘要

The paper explains enumerative induction, the confirmation of a law by its positive instances, in ranking theoretic terms. It gives a ranking theoretic explication of a possible law or a nomological hypothesis. And it shows, finally, that such schemes of enumerative induction uniquely correspond to mixtures of such nomological hypotheses. Thus the paper shows that de Finetti's probabilistic representation theorems may be directly transformed into an account of confirmation of possible laws and that enumerative induction is equivalent to such an account