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Even science is pretty hard to justify with formal logic. There's a pretty big gap between inductive reasoning (statistics) and deductive reasoning (formal log
by nfw2 6y ago
Even science is pretty hard to justify with formal logic.
There's a pretty big gap between inductive reasoning (statistics) and deductive reasoning (formal logic), called the problem of induction. No logician or philosopher has come up with a widely accepted way to solve it in the roughly 200 years since David Hume started writing on the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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