Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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II 303
Uniformity/Hume: we assume a uniformity of past and future.
Physics/theory/explanation/Genz: but we assume more than mere uniformity when we explain why.
Physics also hopes for a certain outcome of experiments that have never been conducted before. Merely uniformity is not enough.
Expectation/Genz: expectation is justified by an understanding of the past. Better than through regularities. Therefore, there is no "induction problem".
>Predictions, >Induction/Genz, >Induction.

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