Truly brilliant examples from mathematics about why repeated confirmations don’t constitute proofs. Clear morals here for epistemology generally: why induction cannot possibly be a thing. https://youtu.be/kp1C0E8Za7k Just 7 minutes. But you’re convinced by 2:40...
Certainly you don't mean the principle of mathematical induction..
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you must mean "induction" in the sense of inductive reasoning as applied to the physical world.. a la Hume's problem of induction
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Is there a way to explain to us who can just about comprehend "the show for n=k and then k+1 has the same form", high school induction proofs how 10^43 term of erf integral does not mean black swans swim in math waters as much as science, so induction is presumptuous.
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