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[Extracts from a Notebook]

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It would perhaps be better to exclude the Baconian induction from formal logic & to call the “perfect induction” as the “proof by enumeration”. It indeed strictly belongs to the deductive logic by which I mean that logic which deduces certain conclusions from premises

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Grattan-Guinness, I., Bornet, G. (1997). [Extracts from a Notebook]. In: Grattan-Guinness, I., Bornet, G. (eds) George Boole. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 20. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8859-2_3

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