“The War on Induction” is an expanded version of a Philosophy of Science Association symposium paper presented at the 2008 PSA meeting.

I consider and reject William Whewell's attack on the in- ductivism of Isaac Newton and John Stuart Mill, and John Norton's attack on any system of universal inductive rules. I also explain how a system of inductive rules of the sort proposed by Newton and Mill should be understood.

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