Combining Analogical Support in Pure Inductive Logic

Jeffrey Paris, Alena Vencovska

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    Abstract

    We investigate the relative probabilistic support afforded by the combination
    of two analogies based on possibly different, structural similarity
    (as opposed to e.g. shared predicates) within the context of Pure
    Inductive Logic and under the assumption of Language Invariance. We
    show that whilst repeated analogies grounded on the same structural
    similarity only strengthen the probabilistic support this need not be
    the case when combining analogies based on different structural similarities.
    That is, two analogies may provide less support than each
    would individually
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalErkenntnis
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2016

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