title: The incomprehensible effectiveness of logic, or The scandal of Francis Bacon’s true induction
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metadata.value: Dragalina-Chernaya, Elena G.
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metadata.value: Lisanyuk, Elena N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:36:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:36:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Dragalina-Chernaya E. G., Lisanyuk E. N. The incomprehensible effectiveness of logic, or The scandal of Francis Bacon’s true induction. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, pp. 307–318. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.303 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38498
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metadata.value: We take seriously a statement of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) that what is he creating is no new
  philosophy, but a new logic. The demarcation of the disciplinary boundaries of the experimental
  natural science and the new logic, “the art of questioning and interpreting nature”, turns
  out to be the key task of the grandiose reform of scientific knowledge initiated by his Novum
  Organum. Bacon proposes his “logic of discovering” including the true induction as the first
  part of the four parts of logic three other parts of which have been invented before him. This
  task involves a design of a double transition, from the experimental data in the “lower axioms”
  though the “middle axioms” to a particular logical system with its “higher axioms”, and vice
  versa, from the logical system to the experimental data. We consider Bacon’s true induction
  as a conceptual technology for eliminating of the “vague abstractions” in a conversation with
  nature about the truth. Based on the generalization of data from the examples of presence,
  absence, and degree, the true induction through the data refinement and validation relates its
  outcomes to probabilistic and plausible reasonings about reasonings. Technological devices
  of Baconian conceptual design are constructed to provide the imperfect cognitive agent with instructions for the interface design of sequential step-by-step ascent through the levels of
  abstraction from initial experimental data to true knowledge, thus presumably guaranteeing
  the comprehensible effectiveness of logical knowledge.
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metadata.value: Support from the Basic Research Program of the HSE University is gratefully acknowledged by
  Elena Dragalina-Chernaya. Support from the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 20-18-00158 “Formal
  Philosophy of Argumentation and comprehensive methodology of search and selection of dispute
  resolutions” is gratefully acknowledged by Elena Lisanyuk.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bacon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: true induction
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logic of discovery
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logic of design
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: levels of abstraction
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive agent
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: The incomprehensible effectiveness of logic, or The scandal of Francis Bacon’s true induction
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metadata.value: Article
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