...so all you end up with is "In my experience, experience is a useful guide", which gets you nowhere.
It gets me everywhere. I can think of no part of my reasoning process that doesn't start from that basis. That's why it matters to me to use the word 'proof' only when I mean 'proof', and not when I mean 'justification', and why the distinction between the two matters.
OK, accepting that you don't use that as a basis for your reasoning (because, for you, it 'gets you nowhere') ... what do you use? How do you justify any deductions at all, if you can't use the principle of induction? (I know these questions sound rheetorical, but they're not, I'm genuinely interested on what you base your reasoning, because it's increasingly clear that it's a very different process from mine.)
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Date: 2009-01-08 03:34 pm (UTC)It gets me everywhere. I can think of no part of my reasoning process that doesn't start from that basis. That's why it matters to me to use the word 'proof' only when I mean 'proof', and not when I mean 'justification', and why the distinction between the two matters.
OK, accepting that you don't use that as a basis for your reasoning (because, for you, it 'gets you nowhere') ... what do you use? How do you justify any deductions at all, if you can't use the principle of induction? (I know these questions sound rheetorical, but they're not, I'm genuinely interested on what you base your reasoning, because it's increasingly clear that it's a very different process from mine.)