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Grades of Inductive Skepticism

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Brian Skyrms
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Abstract

There is not a unique inductive skeptical position; there are grades of inductive skepticism. There is nothing much to say about complete skepticism, but some more restricted skeptical positions may be profitably analyzed.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 303 - 312
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