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jasirs94 at Nov 20, 2016 03:58 AM

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The error of Crude Induction is corrected suddenly; so that its validity consists merely in the fact that if it leads to error that error will be discovered in time by the same method. For example, if a person believes that there is no communication between this world and the other, because no conclusive evidence of it has come to his knowledge; then his justification for his belief is that in case it be mistaken, the mistake will some day come to light, though perhaps not in his days. A weaker justification can certainly not be imagined. Yet it does constitute a justification. Nor could we possibly dispense with crude induction. For without it we should be perpetually tormented with suggestions that there

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