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gnox at Jul 17, 2018 03:32 PM

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warning of the danger of my theory's
breaking down and can prepare myself
for it. The argument from sampling
simply evaluates a ratio. The value may
be wrong. But that I know already, and
the inductive process itself is continually
correcting its own evaluation and goes on
making it approximate indefinitely to the
truth, which is all the process ever
promised to do.

That, then, is my answer to the question,
and it seems to me entirely satisfactory.
But many other answers have been
proposed by different writers. For it
has always seemed to logicians to be a great

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108

warning of the danger of my theory's
breaking down and can prepare myself
for it. The argument from sampling
simply evaluates a ratio. The value may
be wrong. But that I know already, and
the inductive process itself is continually
correcting its own evaluation and goes on
making it approximate indefinitely to the
truth, which is all the process ever
promised to do.

That, then, is my answer to the question,
and it seems to me entirely satisfactory.
But many other answers have been
proposted by different writers. For it
has always seemed to logicians to be a great