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inductivism

Claim that inference in accordance with some version of the inductive principle is, if not logically valid, at least rationally legitimate.

Objections to it include those mentioned under uniformity of nature and Goodman’s paradox.

Source:
R Swinburne, ed., The Justification of Induction (1974)

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