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Using a minimum of propositional logic and of the elementary calculus of probability (see Appendix), David Miller and I (Popper and Miller, 1983) published a very short paper in which we proved that probabilistic support in the sense of the calculus of probability can never be inductive support. As some knowledgeable people remained unconvinced, I am here restating our case, adding some further proofs.
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Popper, K.R. (1985). The Non-existence of Probabilistic Inductive Support. In: Dorn, G., Weingartner, P. (eds) Foundations of Logic and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0548-2_14
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