## Sir, Drs. Smith and Mogie (BioEssays 22.3) criticise Robin Holliday for ``Taking an inductionist stance'', and later in their letter consider an argument in favour of induction in order to dismiss it. But surely it is a bit odd to dismiss induction. Without it we would be groping in total darkn
More on popper and biology: the utility of induction
โ Scribed by John R. S. Fincham
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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