Full Idea
One of the problems of the extrapolation and instantial models of confirmation is that they do not cover vertical inferences, where we infer from what we observe to something at a different level that is often unobservable.
Gist of Idea
Standard induction does not allow for vertical inferences, to some unobservable lower level
Source
Peter Lipton (Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd) [2004], 04 'Attractions')
Book Reference
Lipton,Peter: 'Inference to the Best Explanation (2nd ed)' [Routledge 2004], p.66
A Reaction
This is my preferred essentialist view of induction, that we don't just infer that future swans will be white, but also that whiteness is built into the biology of swans. There seems to be predictive induction and explanatory induction.
Related Idea
Idea 16804 Induction is repetition, instances, deduction, probability or causation [Lipton]