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Originally Posted by dissonance
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.
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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.