2005/11/05 by Afsar Abbas, Abbas, Afsar
Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Origins and Evolution of Life #Philosophy and History of Science #Science and Climate Studies #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0511043
8 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2005/11/05 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is shown that as knowledge is structured, it comes in modules. This provides different " layers of reality ". Each layer of reality has its own distinctive inductive logic which may differ from that of the others. All this is woven together to form a " web of induction " in a multidimensional space. It is the overall resilience, firmness and consistent interconnectedness of the whole web which justifies induction globally and which allows science to continue to "read" nature using the inductive logic.