Re: Just as a bye-the-way

Posted by glen ep ropella on Mar 26, 2012; 2:52pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Just-as-a-bye-the-way-tp7397553p7406173.html

Russell Standish wrote circa 12-03-23 10:21 PM:
> In order to persuade me that induction is invalid,

Here's a great example of how a belief in induction allows us to think
in sloppy ways:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/25/attorney-zimmerman-used-term-of-endearment-before-killing-trayvon-martin/

As usual, the question of the validity of induction is ill-formed
because it assumes the law of the excluded middle.  Sentences are either
valid or invalid and not allowed to be semi-valid or valid-in-context
but invalid-out-of-context.  The fact is that sometimes induction is
valid and sometimes it's not, depending on what the sentence says and
the context in which it's said.

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