Abstract

My remarks will concern the rule (AG?) formulated by Risto Hilpinen in his 'Rules of Acceptance and Inductive Logic' (1968); I shall refer here to this work as 'Rules'.1 I shall use the terminology of Jaakko Hintikka adopted in 'Rules' without any explanations. (AG?) is a rule for inductive generalizations in a simple language Lk (first-order logic with ?-monadic predicates); it is based on one of the probability-functions P defined for Lk in Hintikka's system (1966), with parameters: a finite and ?(w) = w. The rule is formulated as follows ('Rules', p. 64) :

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