Principle used by the English economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) in trying to justify induction.
It said that, if induction is to work, a complex change must be resolvable into a set of component changes each of which is separately attributable to some distinct feature of the preceding state of affairs.
Also see: INDUCTIVE PRINCIPLE
Source:
J M Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921), 249
Table of Contents
- uniformity of nature principle
- limited independent variety principle
- organic unities principle
- indifference principle
- one over many principle
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