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Why is induction not a logical process while deduction is? They are both logical processes of reasoning. You can do induction in philosophy also.
by DividesByZero 14y ago
Why is induction not a logical process while deduction is? They are both logical processes of reasoning. You can do induction in philosophy also.
- tikhonj 14y agoI'm sorry, my particular choice of words is sloppy. Ricardobeat said that "philosophy can only offer logical proof, non-observable/measureable". In this context, I assumed that "logic" really meant deduction or, at most, observations much less rigorous than science. Now, assuming that by "logic" I really mean reasoning without observations, I hope my point becomes more clear. My impression is that philosophers do not really go in for scientific studies and experiments; if an idea proved logically by a philosopher contradicted sufficiently good experimental evidence, for some value of "sufficiently good", I would side with the evidence. Hopefully my thinking is clearer now. I'm working on improving my writing, so hopefully I'll be less needlessly ambiguous in the future :).