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Ideas for 'Writing the Book of the World', 'Truth-makers' and 'Natural Kinds'

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14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction

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Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine]

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Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

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Grue is a puzzle because the notions of similarity and kind are dubious in science [Quine]

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Two applications of 'grue' do not guarantee a similarity between two things [Sider]

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Problem predicates in induction don't reflect the structure of nature [Sider]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

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Bayes produces weird results if the prior probabilities are bizarre [Sider]