
Ep 87: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 1
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The Problem of Induction, Pausing Their Moral Reflection
If scientific reasoning does not amount to sequences of logical deductions from the evidence, what does it amount to? Why should we accept its conclusions? This is known as the problem of induction, pausing their moral reflection. The theory was that there exists short of mathematical proof, a lesser, but still worthy form of justification called induction. We're going to use the same word induction where we can prove such a thing holds for all cases often to infinity. It's important not to get the two confused because they're actually opposites of one another. There are other forms of induction as well, by the way, this word induction, also works in physics in various ways.
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