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Hume's “Circularity” Charge against Inductive Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

D. Goldstick
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Abstract

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Discussion/Note
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1972

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References

1 Hume, Probability, and Induction,” Philosophical Review, Vol. 74, 1965, pages 160–177Google Scholar. Reprinted in Hume. A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by V. C. Chappell (Garden City, New York, 1966), and in Philosophy Today No. 3, edited by Jerry H. Gill (New York, 1970). See also Stove, 's article “Deductivism” in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 48, 1970, pages 76–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I am indebted to George J. Nathan for some useful suggestions in preparing this reply, with which he is not likely to agree in toto.