Ep 164: Knowledge and Ignorance Part4
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Aristotle's Induction, the Method of Questioning, the Socratic Method of Critique and Counter Examples
Aristotle talked about induction, but he seemed to mean two different kinds of things. One was a method by which we are led to intuit some general principle and the other was evidence positive evidence rather than critical evidence or counter examples. So there in Aristotle we'd had this idea that we could become more confident in something because we gathered the evidence up and it mounted up. The first method seems to me to be the older one and the one which can be better connected with Socrates and his mayutic method of criticism and counter examples. That brings us to section nine of on the sources of knowledge and of ignorance.
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