TY - BOOK AU - Skyrms,Brian TI - Choice and chance: an introduction to inductive logic SN - 0534557376 U1 - 161 PY - 2000/// CY - Australia, Belmont, Calif. PB - Wadsworth KW - Induction (Logic) KW - Probabilities N1 - Preface. - Ch. I. Basics of Logic. - Ch. II. Probability and Inductive Logic. - Ch. III. The Traditional Problem of Induction. - Ch. IV. The Goodman Paradox and the New Riddle of Induction. - Ch. V. Mill's Methods of Experimental Inquiry and the Nature of Causality. - Ch. VI. The Probability Calculus. - Ch. VII. Kinds of Probability. - Ch. VIII. Probability Scientific Inductive Logic. - Answers to Selected Exercises. - Index N2 - In this understandable, reader-friendly book, Brian Skyrms begins by defining the basics of probability and inductive logic. The chapters that follow guide readers through more formal methods - and feature a clear, straightforward style that reviewers continue to praise. The chapter units can be read sequentially or in a variety of orders suiting the organization of the course. - Back cover ER -