Hello /lit/, which are some books that allow me to understand

>>8724682
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Hempel#Principal_works
try Hempel

Deductive: work your way backwards from a series of specific assertions to a general root truth (what Thomas aquinas tried to do in summa theologica)

Inductive: start from a simple truthful assertion, and arrive at new assertions by extrapolating circumstances. Try a discrete math textbook for practical applications

>>8724682

francis bacon

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Thanks everyone, I'll start with Novum Organum and Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science.

>>8726090

Remember to check Mill's System of Logic after Bacon.