RE: Why do you not believe in God?
July 16, 2012 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2012 at 12:47 pm by Jeffonthenet.)
(July 16, 2012 at 12:07 pm)apophenia Wrote:
Technically speaking, generalization from observation requires inductive inference, not logical inference/deduction. Inductive inference is not properly speaking a part of logic, so, no, it doesn't close the loop.
(Now whether inductive inference is reliable and under what conditions is another matter entirely.)
Do you know a lot about this? I am no philosopher, but it seems lot me that any inference requires logic, inductive or otherwise. As far as I can tell, induction only gives you data, and to arrive at any conclusions from the data you need logic.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)