Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II

Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II—edited by Richard C. Jeffrey—delivers the long-awaited completion of Rudolf Carnap’s “Basic System of Inductive Logic” and, with it, a definitive bridge between logical probability and modern Bayesian thought. Opening with the posthumous Part II of Carnap’s program—on attribute spaces, confirmation across predicate families, and the celebrated λ–γ systems—the volume traces how exchangeability, similarity, and proximity reshape predictive...