creators_name: Abbas, Afsar
type: preprint
datestamp: 2005-11-15
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: A "LAYERS OF REALITY TO A WEB OF INDUCTION" HYPOTHESIS
subjects: phil-sci
full_text_status: public
keywords: induction, realism
abstract: It is shown that as knowledge is structured, it comes in
modules. This provides different " layers of reality ".
Each layer of reality has its own distinctive inductive logic which may differ from that of the others. All this is woven together to form a " web of induction " in a multidimensional space. It is the overall resilience, firmness and consistent interconnectedness of the whole web which justifies induction globally and which allows science to continue to "read" nature using the inductive logic.


date: 2005-11
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
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Callender, C. and Nuggett, N. (2001), " Physics meets philosophy at the Planck Scale ", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Ladyman, J. (2002), " Understanding philosophy of science ",
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citation:   Abbas, Dr. Afsar  (2005) A "LAYERS OF REALITY TO A WEB OF INDUCTION" HYPOTHESIS.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4617/1/psweb.pdf