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Old 09-20-2008, 10:19 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dissonance View Post
Well, I wasn't talking about certainty. I thought it was a pretty new idea to say that induction is the same as deduction, just with hidden premises.

No one has responded to that idea, though.
Well they aren't "the same," but you do have to take things for granted to make any decisions at all. Deduction only has one unknown: Are things as they seem? Induction has indefinite unknowns: Every case not tested. This probably wasn't the answer you were looking for, but it's all I got.
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