By contrast, "ampliative" inference is not strictly deductive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Thus, the kind of ampliative inference I posit as the norm, i.e., inference to the best explanation, must and does exhibit, in the concrete, the features Brandon discusses. From Wordnik.com. [Siris on development of doctrine] Reference
He thus uses an ampliative yardstick for judging ampliative rules. From Wordnik.com. [Laudan, demarcation and the vacuity of Intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
I can think of no better term than, simply, 'ampliative inference'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
I want to argue here that authentic DD sometimes does involves ampliative inference. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
If so, the development of doctrine has room for ampliative as well as clarificatory inference. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Furthermore, the concepts we project partially determine which ampliative inferences we sanction. From Wordnik.com. [Relativism] Reference
So, why couldn't at least part of our assimilation to and understanding of its content also be ampliative?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Doctrine develops only deductively, not inductively hence, doctrine develops only in a non-ampliative manner. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Cartesian deduction is intended to be ampliative like induction, which leads beyond the content of the premisses. From Wordnik.com. [NECESSITY] Reference
Inductions, then, are ampliative in the sense that they claim something above and beyond what the premises claim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
The connection is not that of formal logic, but is synthetic and ampliative, like the Cartesian necessary connection. From Wordnik.com. [NECESSITY] Reference
Another doubt about knowing elusive claims deductively via mundane claims is that this maneuver is improperly ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Closure Principle] Reference
Now I consider it fairly obvious that some, perhaps even much, DD is ampliative and thus "inductive" in logicians' lingo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
It hinges on the distinction, oft employed under various names by Newman, between ampliative and clarificatory inference. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
That's why I've suggested that the way to see a development as genuine is, standardly, to see it as ampliative inference. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Hence, Peter is a man and Peter is mortal is not a genuine inference, one that is ampliative, yielding an increase of truth. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
Given the ampliative character of most arguments, logical assessment presupposes the dialectical adequacy of argumentative procedures. From Wordnik.com. [Jürgen Habermas] Reference
But that is precisely the problem I believe is addressed by claiming that, in some cases at least, DD takes place by ampliative inference. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
He holds that DD entails only "non-ampliative" inference, i.e., strictly deductive inference from whatever the relevant data happen to be. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
For the ampliative account is disjunctive: it says that the proposition is true if either what was white was black or what is white was black. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
Syncategoreumata authors, like Johannes Pagus and Nicholas of Paris, who maintain that the term ˜necessarily™ does not have ampliative force. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
Deductions, by contrast, are non-ampliative, because their conclusions do not state anything different from what the premises collectively tell us. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Whether Ockham realized that his theory improved on the ampliative theory is unclear; nonetheless, his account seems to accord better with intuition. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference
But the mechanism of discovery is not decoding according to conventional rules, but intention-recognition and discovery based on ampliative inference. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatics] Reference
The example of Isaiah 7:14, in conjunction with many others, shows that the unfolding of divine revelation as recorded in the two testaments of Scripture is ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
He argues that the Isaiah 7:14 example shows not an inference at all but an interpretation; and interpretation is common to ampliative and non-ampliative inferences alike. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
In contrast, logic as ampliative involves a passage from the knowledge of particulars summarized in the major, or universal premise, to an application of the same rule to a new case. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
In inductive arguments, or arguments involving inference to the best explanation, rational intuitions must ultimately provide justification for those ampliative principles themselves. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
Orthodox and Anglicans would agree that there are instances of the former; one often cited is the homoousion propunded by Nicaea I, though I am unpersuaded that that formulation was not ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Hence such a proposition has been called ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
Inductive logic is ampliative, but is famously less certain. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Therefore I take it to be rather declarative, or ampliative, or both. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
This position distinguishes a number of different kinds of imagination ” associative, metaphorical, exploratory, projective, ampliative, and revelatory. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental Aesthetics] Reference
However, everyday reasoning is often ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [Formal Representations of Belief] Reference
Others are seen to be true only by and through experience (called "synthetic", "real", "ampliative". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
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