Download or read book Inference from Signs written by James Allen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and penetrating, this book investigates of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. It examines an important chapter in ancient epistemology: the debates about the nature of evidence and of the inferences based on it--or signs and sign-inferences as they were called in antiquity. As the first comprehensive treatment of this topic, it fills an important gap in the histories of science and philosophy.