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» Confirmation Theory - Article by Michael Huemer defending inductive inference against Hume's argument by appeal to `inference to the best explanation', contrasting his approach to those of Goodman and Hempel.

» Conjectures - PhD thesis of Peter Flach, investigating the `logic of induction' from philosophical and machine-learning perspectives.

» Mathematical Induction - Lecture notes by Peter Suber, explaining the difference between inductive inference and mathematical induction (which is a species of deductive inference).

» The Problem of Induction - Essay by Karl Popper, arguing that there is no such thing as inductive inference.

» Presuppositions and the Paradoxes of Confirmation - Discussion by Michael Beaney in Disputatio of a paradox of confirmation due to Mark Sainsbury. [PDF] (May, 1999)

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