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Example: "No instance of clairv a genuine power of clairvoyance has
ever been established: So I presume there is no such thing." I propose to
call such reasoning Crude induction. Bacon seems to mean refer to this when he
speaks of "inductio quae procedit per enumerationes simplicem." But I
hardly think he meant to say that that phrase exactly describes it. It
certainly does not; since in most cases no enumeration is attempted;
and the enumeration, even if given, would not be the reasoner's chief reliance, which
is rather the absence of instances to the contrary.

Crude induction is the only kind of induction that is

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(No break!)
Example: "No instance of a genuine power of clairvoyance has ever been established: So I presume there is no such thing." I propose to call such reasoning Crude induction. Bacon seems to refer to this when he speaks of "inductio quae procedit per enumerationes simplicem." But I hardly think he meant to say that that phrase exactly describes it. It certainly does not; since in most cases no enumeration is attempted; and the enumeration, even if given, would not be the reasoner's chief reliance, which is rather the absence of instances to the contrary.

Crude induction is the only kind of induction that is