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Originally Posted by Magic Poriferan
It is true that induction could be seen as a sloppy structure of deduction, but even deduction could be seen as dependant on induction. Why do we really assume that deductive reasoning is correct? Because it's never been wrong so far. So that's inductive.  |
What you say is true, but I feel I may not have explained the point I was trying to make clearly.
For example: it would be considered inductive reasoning to say, "The sun has risen every day that I've been paying attention. Therefore the sun will rise tomorrow."
But I'm saying, that's really deductive with hidden premises. If you add in the premise "Something that has happened every day for my whole life will happen tomorrow", then it's deductive.