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Induction concludes more than would
conceivably be true in every case in which
what is observed would be true. It cannot, therefore,
absolutely guarantee the truth of its conclusion.
What can it do? Shall it show that
the conclusion would be true in a large
proportion of the embodiments of its general condition
in the course of
experience? This would be nothing but
a necessary deduction of a statistical
kind. It has to conclude that a hypothesis
is true because certain predictions
based upon it have been verified.
Under what modification
is it warranted in
asserting that? Without exhausting the