(July 15, 2014 at 10:32 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(May 10, 2013 at 11:15 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Inductive reasoning works. Is that a falsifiable statement?
Yes
Yeah, if you accept empirical results then inductive reasoning -correctly applied- can certainly be shown to work. But if what Chad means is can you deduce why it is that induction works, then of course you can't. But by the standards of science, induction is a go.