Popper kept repeating Hume's idiotic argument for the impossibility of induction until his death in 1994, when Solomonoff solved induction in 1964. Dishonesty? Incompetence? Insanity? It's like taking Zeno's Paradox as a serious argument for the impossibility of motion.
Anti-inductionists are as idiotic as those claiming that motion is impossible. Every child proves them wrong by using induction all the time to learn how to move, to eat, to speak, to think, etc. Some beliefs are so utterly stupid only very intelligent people believe them.
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Saying the child "proves them wrong" is begging the question.
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That children learn from example is pretty obvious as well as pretty well documented. That's how they seem to learn French in France and Russian in Russia, instead of by a miraculous coincidence.
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