On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:49 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 3:53:18 AM UTC+2 Brent wrote: > >> >> Notice that they don't exist in the sense you mean. Newton's laws aren't >> around anymore. >> > > By laws I mean regularities in nature. The apple still falls down and not > up or in random directions, so the regularity exists like it did in the > days of Newton although Einstein's theory can describe this regularity more > accurately than Newton's theory. > > >> So there's no guarantee they will continue without change, but they will >> apply to the past. How do we know? We don't, but it's supported by >> induction. Induction is a self-supporting form of inference. If there is >> any effective form of empirical inference, then induction will do as well. >> > > The problem is, why does induction work? > Induction does not work. Bruce Solomonoff tried to explain it with his theory of induction and that's what > Russell's book refers to. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLR-Suo0iZpK9B7pRpTK%2BpzM%2B44qc_M9qKn1fKGZxoPGsw%40mail.gmail.com.
