Induction 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)

Induction 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

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