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Extrapolation Is Exactly What You're Saying
i use extrapolation instead of induction only because induction is the philosopher's word, and i'm trying to learn how to speak more colloquially myself. But yes, it's exactly what you're saying. It's just, you're basically trying to figure out another way of putting it. Is your tring to figure, ok, what's a hypothesis that best explains our observations? And so you consider it computing hypotheses, you figure ouk which hypothesis best explains them. Whell, presumably its going to be the simplest hypothesis accounts for all the data. So therefore, pretty reasonable gravity works everywhere n the universe. I mean, it maybe implies that wholes, whole contingent things, who