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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Its also inconsistent and ideologically loaded. Statistics on gender & violent crime justify demonising men but stats on Islam & illiberal..
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...values is something only brought up by racists. The two uses of the poisoned candy analogy shows this inconsistency.
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But we can, and in fact must, make working assumptions to function & know anything. Must just acknowledge that's what they are.
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That is exactly what makes it different from induction.
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I think this might be a semantic difference & am prepared to concede that you are being more precise in your use of the word
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Anyway, thank you for the discussion. It was a fun excursion :)
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Yes, I think we know where we're both coming from now.
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And it makes us a minority in our fields. The concl. is that empiricism is false, and that was used incorr. to exorcise science from hum.
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Absolutely.
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