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F. John Clendinnen (August 23 1924 - July 25 2013) was a contemporary philosopher of science interested in induction and empiricism. His father, Leslie John Clendinnen and grandfather, Frederick John Clendinnen were radiologists at several hospitals in Melbourne, Australia, where Clendinnen lived. He enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War and trained as a pilot in both Australia and Canada. The war ended before he entered combat and he returned to Australia where he commenced an undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne. After graduating with honours in philosophy he was employed initially as a tutor by the University at the newly created History and Philosophy of Science Department in the Faculty of Arts. He remained in the same department until his retirement in 1989. He married the noted Australian historian Inga Clendinnen (née Jewell). Clendinnen completed a part time PhD while on the teaching staff of the University called "Logical Principles of Scientific Inference". Clendinnen was in correspondence with philosophers such as Wesley C. Salmon and Susan Haack. In his work he explored the ways in which we can know things; how causal connections can be tested and established in the real world.