If we know multiple theories to have the same explanatory power, we are not free to pick one as our preferred belief, but are rationally forced to remain agnostic. (Pragmatically, we may be forced to make bets, though.)
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I was going to say… I meant 'today' as an unbound variable so: “Regularities observed at time x will hold at time x+1, because regularities at some times y have been observed to hold at time y+1’ But that may be flawed, and …
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… I may need to think harder about what a computational version of the problem of induction looks like. (My background confidence is roughly based on the belief that a version of PoI can be constructed for any given version of empiricism)
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