An Aristotelian Account of Induction : Creating Something from Nothing (Mcgill-queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

Presents a historical and critical account of 'the problem of induction' from an Aristotelian perspective. This book discusses the intellectual process through which we access the 'first principles' of human thought - the most basic concepts, the laws of logic, the universal claims of science and metaphysics, and the deepest moral truths.