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3 revisions | jeffdown1 at Dec 10, 2015 04:31 PM | |
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21times running, that is a mere uniformity. The dice might happen fortuitously turn up sixes a thousand times running. But that would not afford the slightest security for a prediction that they would turn up sixes the next time. If the prediction has a tendency to be fulfilled, it must be that future events have a tendency to conform to a general rule. 'Oh', but say the Nominalists, 'this general rule is nothing but a mere word or complex of words!' I reply, Nobody ever dreamed of denying that what is genera is of the nature of a general sign; but the question is whether the future events will conform to it or not. If they will, your adjective 'mere' seems to be ill placed. A rule which future events have a tendency to conform | 21 |