I guess I must have spoiled your game somewhat by turning out to be barely
lukewarm regarding the charms of induction, NIck.
Well, what can I say, except that one person's fascination is, well, one
person's fascination.
--Doug
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Nicholas Thompson
'Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns
into people.'
Hydrogen sulfide is another gas entirely.
On 4/5/12, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
I guess I must have spoiled your game somewhat by turning out to be barely
lukewarm regarding the charms of
Doug,
Well, when you are talking about motivations, you are talking about my
so-called area of expertise.
But I don't think we have been talking about motivations. I think we have
been talking about LOGIC. The implicit reasoning that HAS to underlie a
position to make it make sense.
Sarbajit,
Before I forget, induction is coming to a conclusion about the character of
a class through amassing instances of that class. (Collecting swans that
are white to show that all swans are white.) Abduction is amassing
properties of an individual to show that that individual is
