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Lifespan
Born to Wallis and Ruth Salmon, was killed in a car accident on his way to visit family in Indiana -
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Education
Attended Wayne State University for undergraduate, then moved onto the University of Chicago for graduate. -
On induction
"there is a crucial sense in which the logic of science is inescapably inductive, and that a justification of induction is essential to a full understanding of the logic of science."
“The Justification of Inductive Rules of Inference”, in Lakatos (ed.) 1968: 24–43. “Reply”, in Lakatos (ed.) 1968: 74–97. -
Rationality and Realism
Defined three grades of rationality standing in different relationships with objectivity:
Static Rationality:has no connection with objectivity and is identified with the coherence of degrees of conviction
Kinematic: a tool to update one’s degree of conviction, shapes a stronger type of rationality
Dynamic: The highest grade of rationality involves a closer connection with objectivity. https://plato.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia/archinfo.cgi?entry=wesley-salmon