Russell Standish wrote circa 12-03-23 10:21 PM: > In order to persuade me that induction is invalid,
Here's a great example of how a belief in induction allows us to think in sloppy ways: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/25/attorney-zimmerman-used-term-of-endearment-before-killing-trayvon-martin/ As usual, the question of the validity of induction is ill-formed because it assumes the law of the excluded middle. Sentences are either valid or invalid and not allowed to be semi-valid or valid-in-context but invalid-out-of-context. The fact is that sometimes induction is valid and sometimes it's not, depending on what the sentence says and the context in which it's said. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
