On 6/27/2021 2:49 AM, Tomas Pales 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? Solomonoff tried to explain it with his theory of induction and that's what Russell's book refers to.
Yes, I've read Russell's book. Solomonoff's idea is interesting but whether his assumptions are more fundamental or believable than just saying induction works and we know that by induction, is questionable.
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