Carolina QuotesInduction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
Simon Blackburn Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 225
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- Think (1999)
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- 1999
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- p. 225
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