Inductive reasoning can also establish truth but so much philosophy doesn't aim to do that
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Inductive reasoning is false. Popper solved that problem quite convincingly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
IMO yes, in his 'conjectures and refutations'. Often in humanities only his falsification theory is taught. That is not the whole story.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
Would he disagree with the wine bottles & tennis ball example?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Yes. Knowledge is created by conjecture and criticism. Observation or experiment never confirms theory 100%. Can only refute.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
So we can only assume that bigger things don't fit inside smaller things coz every time it's been tried, it's failed?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
Because past observations don’t logically include conclusions about future observations.
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Replying to @JCMaas @BaileyNagy
But this is very tedious & only needs to be acknowledged once. We can still use induction to attain usable knowledge & function.
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Even if we're actually all brains in jars & nothing is real. Assume it is & create antibiotics etc anyway.
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If £10 is enough to buy lunch, I can inductively reason that £20 is enough to buy 2 lunches & thereby function in the world.
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