Inductive Reasoning

Anna M. Carabelli
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Anna M. Carabelli: University of Pavia

Chapter 4 in On Keynes’s Method, 1988, pp 61-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An inference is usually called inductive when it permits us to pass from statements referring to particulars to general statements. Induction has been one of the crucial topics of modern epistemology. It has been widely accepted that empirical sciences are characterised by their use of inductive methods. But the epistemological status of induction has been a recurrent theme of discussion. Therefore Keynes’s treatment of induction represents one of the main points to be considered in probing his attitude towards scientific method.1 His attitude toward induction was to play a crucial role in his methodological approach to economics; the position he took in his controversy with Tinbergen, which we will consider in Chapter 10, is a good example of this.

Keywords: Inductive Reasoning; Inductive Argument; Empirical Science; Ordinary Life; Inductive Generalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19414-8_4

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