 I turn now to a discussion of the theory of induction Whewell developed with his antithetical epistemology. From his earliest thoughts about scientific method, Whewell was interested in developing an inductive theory. At their philosophical breakfasts at Cambridge, Whewell, Babbage, Herschel and Jones discussed how science had stagnated since the heady days of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century. It was time for a new revolution, which they pledged to bring about. The cornerstone of this new revolution was to be the promotion of a Baconian-type of induction, and all four men began their careers endorsing an inductive scientific method against the deductive method then being advanced by political economist David Ricardo, logician Richard Whately, and their followers (see Snyder 2011). (Although the four friends agreed about the importance of an inductive scientific method, Herschel and Jones would late take issue with some aspects of Whewell’s version, notably his antithetical epistemology.)