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jasirs94 at Apr 29, 2017 07:33 PM

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if I were to grant that the truth of the inductive conclusion would
necessarily follow if the conditions of a fair sample were to be ideally
fulfilled, which, for a reason that I will presently state, I find myself
unable to do, still the person who really draws the inductive inference
cannot possibly have any demonstrative evidence that those conditions
are fulfilled even to the imperfect degree that is needful
for an approximation to the true ratio. He knows, if you will, that
has made strenuous efforts to mak his sample a fair one; but he
cannot be quite sure that deep down in the caverns of his heart

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if I were to grant that the truth of the inductive conclusion would necessarily follow if the conditions of a fair sample were to be ideally fulfilled, which, for a reason that I will presently state, I find myself unable to do, still the person who really draws the inductive inference cannot possibly have any demonstrative evidence that those conditions are fulfilled even to the imperfect degree that is needful for an approximation to the true ratio. He knows, if you will, that [he] has made strenuous efforts to mak[e] his sample a fair one; but he cannot be quite sure that deep down in the caverns of his heart