Justification of Induction - Max Black (1963)

[@Anabsurdsuggestion]

I like the gentle background interference of music and voice, like a light entertainment show is on a nearby radio wavelength. As for inductive reasoning, it helps to follow arguments as they must apply to the challenge of diffusing a bomb.

[@Gabriel-pt3ci]

Thank very much, @Philosophy_Overdose! Magnificent talk! I am looking forward to hear the rest! In particular, I am quite interested in that of Nelson Goodman (who incredibly Black does not cite here!) and Sidney Morgenbesser (whose production is very very hard to find un the web).

[@Tom-rg2ex]

That's a heck of a resumé he's got.

[@briangarrett2427]

Solid chap.

[@eternaldelight648]

This might be a form of the "probabilistic reasoning," but I think it's fair to say that we intuitively use such reasoning in our thinking, and many inductive arguments may be naturally derived (i.e. deduced) from a kind of probabilistic premise, with a greater or smaller margin of error included almost by definition. In other words, the stochastic/probabilistic nature of reality may be a kind of metauniverse of our discourse, and many an inductive argument thus appears to be simply an appeal to this greater dimension, followed by a deduction.

[@Catholictomherbert]

Im always willing to try to give the golden mean of a brief description when people ask me for a explication of certain actions I do and attempt not to go for to long and to short of that description.

[@Philosophy_Overdose]

What?

[@Catholictomherbert]

@@Philosophy_Overdose in other simple terms I’m looking for a middle way to explain certain actions or events to people without being to excessive or weak in the explication. Does that make sense?

[@jeremybray9586]

Is that Sydney Morgenbesser introducing the lecture?

[@Philosophy_Overdose]

No.

[@jeremybray9586]

@@Philosophy_Overdose ‘Yeah yeah.’

[@Philosophy_Overdose]

​@@jeremybray9586Sidney has a very different voice and a distinctive accent.

[@jeremybray9586]

@@Philosophy_Overdose Apparently he have a lecture in this series. I’ll have a look for it. I’ve read about him, would love to hear him lecture.

[@Sunfried1]

Inductive reasoning is simply one of our rational faculties, and in the absence of inductively acquired data, deductive logic would be useless and sterile.

[@benjiusofficial]

"But that's slippery slope fallacy" - English majors, always.