Induction in the Philosophy of Science

induction was contrasted on the one hand with the supposedly perfect justification provided by deduction, and on the other hand would supposedly weaker philosophical or intuitive forms of reasoning that do not even have observational evidence to back them up. Brett Hall: If you think induction is a thing, then you can extrapolate the theory that as you heat the water, it continues to rise in temperature. He says there's never going to be a surprising observation out there like the boiling of water. "You don't know that at 100 degrees Celsius, something special and unexpected happens," he adds.