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The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive inference. It seeks universally applicable schemas or rules or a single formal device, such as the probability calculus. After millennia of halting efforts, none of these approaches has been unequivocally successful and debates between approaches persist. The Material Theory of Induction identifies the source of these enduring problems in the assumption taken at the outset: that inductive inference can be accommodated by a single formal acco...
Major John Norton was half-indian, of a Cherokee father; he became a Mohawk Indian chief (by adoption), and was fluent in 12 Indian languages, English, French, Spanish and German. He attached himself to the British soldiers and served in many capacities, including as interpretor and emissary for Joseph Brant ... to the end of the War of 1812.
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