2022/07/17 by Marta Sznajder · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · Psychology · #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Probability and Statistical Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10670-022-00586-y
openalex publication_date 2022/07/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Abstract Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum is a known figure in philosophy of probability of the 1930s. A previously unpublished manuscript fills in the blanks in the full picture of her work on inductive reasoning by analogy, until now only accessible through a single publication. In this paper, I present Hosiasson’s work on analogical reasoning, bringing together her early publications that were never translated from Polish, and the recently discovered unpublished work. I then show how her late work relates to Rudolf Carnap’s approach to “analogy by similarity” developed in the 1960s. Hosiasson turns out to be a predecessor of the line of research that models analogical influence as inductive relevance. A translation of Hosiasson’s manuscript concludes the paper.