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Wait, what? Do you mean induction in a specific case, or induction overall? Because your counterexample just isn't provable by induction. There's no inductive
by cube2222 8y ago
Wait, what? Do you mean induction in a specific case, or induction overall?
Because your counterexample just isn't provable by induction. There's no inductive step there... There's no reason to believe that if the sun went up east on the n'th day it will do so on the n+1'th as well.
- lisper 8y agoI mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning which is what the OP is about. Totally different from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction which is logically valid.
- cube2222 8y agoThanks you for the clarification! I've seen the OP, didn't understand it really though.