An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something from Nothing

摘要

[...] induction is the mental ability to somehow "jump" from the experience of a particular thing to concepts, rules, and principles covering a wide variety of cases. [...] as Groarke shows, those who did the most to advance the sciences did not refute or even repudiate ancient notions concerning the object of science and the nature of scientific explanation; they merely shifted discourse from consideration of the essence or nature of things to that which can be empirically measured, declining to integrate the scientific tableau of the new physics with that of philosophy and common sense.