Book III: Induction and Analogy
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Book III: Induction and Analogy is a major section of John Maynard Keynes’s *A Treatise on Probability* that examines the logical foundations of inductive reasoning and the use of analogy in probabilistic inference.
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book III: Induction and Analogy Context triple: [A Treatise on Probability, hasPart, Book III: Induction and Analogy]
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History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous mock-historical narrative of the city’s early days.
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Book III
Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
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E.
Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects
"Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects" is a section of Spinoza’s *Ethics* that analyzes how human emotions can enslave us and explores the path toward greater rational freedom.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book III: Induction and Analogy Target entity description: Book III: Induction and Analogy is a major section of John Maynard Keynes’s *A Treatise on Probability* that examines the logical foundations of inductive reasoning and the use of analogy in probabilistic inference.
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A.
History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
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B.
Book III
Book III is a section of Washington Irving’s satirical work *A History of New York*, continuing its humorous mock-historical narrative of the city’s early days.
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C.
Book III
Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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D.
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
-
E.
Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects
"Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects" is a section of Spinoza’s *Ethics* that analyzes how human emotions can enslave us and explores the path toward greater rational freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book section
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part of philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | John Maynard Keynes ⓘ |
| contributesTo |
Keynes’s account of partial ordering of probabilities
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Keynes’s concept of weight of evidence ⓘ Keynes’s critique of frequency interpretations of probability ⓘ logical theory of probability ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discusses |
conditions for valid analogical reasoning
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limitations of purely statistical induction ⓘ rational constraints on degrees of belief ⓘ |
| examines |
degrees of rational belief
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justification of inductive arguments ⓘ logical foundations of induction ⓘ logical relations between evidence and hypothesis ⓘ principles governing inductive generalization ⓘ role of analogy in inference ⓘ use of analogy in extending probability judgments ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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logic ⓘ philosophy of probability ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
analogy
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inductive reasoning ⓘ probabilistic inference ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialIntention | to ground probability in logic rather than frequency ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
logic
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mathematics ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | logical theory of probability rather than subjective personalism ⓘ |
| influences |
20th-century analytic philosophy
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debates on the justification of induction ⓘ later work in philosophy of probability ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | middle part of A Treatise on Probability ⓘ |
| partOf | A Treatise on Probability ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Book I–V of A Treatise on Probability
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linked to:
A Treatise on Probability
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| publicationYear | 1921 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bayesian approaches to probability
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linked to:
Bayesian inference
logical interpretation of probability ⓘ |
| workContext | early 20th-century foundations of probability ⓘ |
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Subject: Book III: Induction and Analogy Description of subject: Book III: Induction and Analogy is a major section of John Maynard Keynes’s *A Treatise on Probability* that examines the logical foundations of inductive reasoning and the use of analogy in probabilistic inference.
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