Inductive knowledge

Alfred Schramm

pp. 221-235

in: Keith Lehrer, Johann C. Marek (eds), Austrian philosophy past and present, Deventer, Kluwer, 1997

Abstract

A plea for an inductivist theory of knowledge is presumably not quite in tune with the fashion of the day. Nevertheless, contrary to the currently prevailing opinion that the case for induction is closed and beyond any hope, my claim is that induction is the only hope left if we want to avoid skepticism.