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Barrow, J. D. (1992) Theories of Everything: The Quest for Unlimate Explanation, Vintage: London
Algorithmic Compressibility
"The goal of science is to make sense of the diversity of Nature. It is not based upon observation alone. It employs observation to gather information about the world and to test predictions about how the world will react to new circumstances, but in between these two procedures lies the heart of the scientific process. This is nothing more than the transformation of lists of observational data in to abbreviated form by the recognition of patterns." (P. 10)

Beinhocker, E. D. (2006) The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, Harvard Business School Press: London.

Inductive Inference
"Induction is essentially reasoning by patter recognition." (P. 126)
Deductive Reasoning
"Deduction is a process of reasoning in which the conclusions must logically follow from a set of premises, for example, "Socrates is a man, and all men are mortal. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.""(P. 127)

Punch, K. F. (2005). Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Sage, London

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