/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2684122]

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like
a tautology or an analytic statement. Indeed, if there were such a thing
as a purely logical principle of induction, there would be no problem
of induction; for in this case, all inductive inferences would have to be
regarded as purely logical or tautological transformations, just like
inferences in deductive logic. Thus the principle of induction must be a
synthetic statement; that is, a statement whose negation is not
self-contradictory but logically possible. So the question arises why
such a principle should be accepted at all, and how we can justify
its acceptance on rational grounds.

>What the fuck does this mean?