But there is no such thing as a “method of induction” which finds hypotheses for you.
Yes there is although one must of course already have some kind of vocabulary within which to represent hypotheses. It is finding a hypothesis out of an infinite number of hypothesis that such a method is useful for.
No there isn’t, because as I have illustrated above, an ‘inductive inference’ pointing to a hypothesis presupposes a set of data selectively chosen and written down in such a way that the hypothesis is already present.
I think you probably have something else in mind, perhaps “abductive inference” (i.e. “inference to the best explanation”).
Yes, abductive inference or some form of analogical thinking are how powerful hypotheses are really generated. Neither of the posts linked to in number 4 above even mention induction, so I’m not sure why the author thought they were evidence for the thesis.
Yes there is although one must of course already have some kind of vocabulary within which to represent hypotheses. It is finding a hypothesis out of an infinite number of hypothesis that such a method is useful for.
No there isn’t, because as I have illustrated above, an ‘inductive inference’ pointing to a hypothesis presupposes a set of data selectively chosen and written down in such a way that the hypothesis is already present.
I think you probably have something else in mind, perhaps “abductive inference” (i.e. “inference to the best explanation”).
That’s the kind of science aliens use.
Yes, abductive inference or some form of analogical thinking are how powerful hypotheses are really generated. Neither of the posts linked to in number 4 above even mention induction, so I’m not sure why the author thought they were evidence for the thesis.
I speak of the sense used in “4”, that which you were objecting to. Louie is right and you are wrong.