Statistics, Induction, and Lawlikeness: Comments on Dr. Vetter’s Paper

In his valuable paper, Dr. Vetter raises many interesting questions and offers several acute observations on them. I cannot deal with all the problems he touches on within the confines of my comment. I must therefore limit my remarks to a few selected topics. Among the wealth of material offered by Dr. Vetter’s paper I have chosen two subjects for special consideration. They are (1) the relevance of mathematical statistics to a logician’s work on induction - and vice versa - and (2) the problem of inductive generalization.

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