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Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction”
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Hume’s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific 11
- Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study 51
- Intelligibility 123
- Induction, Science, and Knowledge 135
- Induction in the Socratic Tradition 161
- Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation 193
- The Problem of Example 231
- The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? 251
- From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid 269
- Not Induction’s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions 301
- Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux 323
- Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism 359
- Goethe and Intuitive Induction 385
- Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction” 415
- Induction as a Pragmatic Resource 437
- Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence 455
- Epilogue 515
- Contributors’ Biographies 523
- Index 527
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- Hume’s Disappointingly Accurate Conclusions: General and Specific 11
- Hume and Aristotle on Induction: A Comparative Study 51
- Intelligibility 123
- Induction, Science, and Knowledge 135
- Induction in the Socratic Tradition 161
- Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation 193
- The Problem of Example 231
- The Object of Aristotelian Induction: Formal Cause or Composite Individual? 251
- From Particular to Universal: Drawing upon the Intellectual Milieu to Understand Aristotle and Euclid 269
- Not Induction’s Problem: Aquinas on Induction, Simple Apprehension, and Their Metaphysical Suppositions 301
- Grounding Necessary Truth in the Nature of Things: A Redux 323
- Narrative and Direct Experience: A Dialogue on Metaphysical Realism 359
- Goethe and Intuitive Induction 385
- Lonergan’s Solution to the “Problem of Induction” 415
- Induction as a Pragmatic Resource 437
- Jumping the Gaps: Induction as First Exercise of Intelligence 455
- Epilogue 515
- Contributors’ Biographies 523
- Index 527