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The point sonusario is making is that your assertion about the future behaviour of the Sun is based on our understanding of physics, and physics is itself inher
by mrec 8y ago
The point sonusario is making is that your assertion about the future behaviour of the Sun is based on our understanding of physics, and physics is itself inherently inductive - it's an abstraction and formalisation of empirical experience. If we'd consistently made very different observations of the world, we'd have come up with different physics, which would make different predictions.
In my view saying things like "induction is invalid" is a bit of dead end, rather like Cartesian doubt. It's not that it's wrong, more that you can't go anywhere interesting from there, unless you abandon your own principles and start wibbling about God and the natural light and pineal glands.
- lisper 8y ago> physics is itself inherently inductive No, it isn't. It is explanatory. You need to read Deutsch and/or Popper. The argument is too long to reproduce in an HN comment.