Also, please make no mention of deductive arguments — forrest-sounds
If not, what form does a good inductive argument take. — forrest-sounds
Inductive arguments can not show their conclusion to be true, they can at best raise suspicion about the truth of some claim. — forrest-sounds
Also, please make no mention of deductive arguments since these can only be made in theory with each premise of a deductive argument ultimately being justified through induction for all practical examples. — forrest-sounds
Inductive arguments can not show their conclusion to be true — forrest-sounds
I'm not sure about that. It's possible that mathematical knowledge, for instance, doesn't need to be justified by induction. The same seems also to apply to the truths of logic. — Amalac
They show that their conclusión is probably true (for practical purposes). Of course one may doubt that through sceptical arguments like the problem of induction, but nobody can go through their normal everyday life without acting as if some beliefs were more likely to be true than others, using induction. This does not apply to most other beliefs “justified” by circular reasoning or some fallacy such as appeal to authority, or ad populum. — Amalac
Now that being said, secondly, maybe we can agree that, since the goal may be different, we can not judge inductive reasoning by the bar you presume. Can we simply say that there is better and worse reasoning? That generalizing without examples, taking everything to be like one thing, etc., is just doing a poor job of inductive reasoning? — Antony Nickles
Your presentation is really clear and well thought out. — T Clark
When in fact all arguments are so, that is no argument can substantiate its own conclusion. — forrest-sounds
Lazy because it allows one to dismiss arguments by nature of their form alone, without having to contend with the meaning and purpose of an argument. And dishonest because one does so without ever stating that all arguments are in fact equally poor in this respect. — forrest-sounds
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