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ALZATE, Randy. The status of scientific inference in Bertrand Russell. EPISTEME [online]. 2016, vol.36, n.1, pp.19-28. ISSN 0798-4324.

This essay aims to analyze, from the perspective of Bertrand Russell, the process by which the subject agrees to establish a set of premises to make inferences. We seek, with Russell, to establish the minimum conditions for such inference to be possible. The characteristics of the premises that the subject accepts are clarified through the proposal of Hume and his classification between questions of fact and relations between ideas. Some approaches are shown in relation to the meaning of the individual experience of knowledge acquisition and the possible relation to collective knowledge. We discuss the role of epistemology in knowledge and the strength of Hume’s theses is recognized by stating that the inference is not necessary, but probable.

Palabras clave : Inference; data; scientific knowledge.

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