Curve fitting isn’t Problematic. The reason it’s usually a good best guess that points will keep fitting a curve (though wrong a significant fraction of the time) is because we can appeal to a deeper hypothesis that “there’s a causal mechanism generating these points that is similar across time”. When we take our time and do actual science on our universe, our theories tell us that the universe has time-similar causal structures all over the place. Actual science is what licenses quick&dirty science-like heuristics.
Youre subsuming the epistemic problem of induction under the ontologcal problem of induction, but you haven’t offered a solution to the ontologcal problem of induction.
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How do you know that the world is stable? Effect has followed cause in the past, but stability means that it will also do so in the future..but to think that it will do so in the future because it has done so in the past is inductive reasoning.
Curve fitting isn’t Problematic. The reason it’s usually a good best guess that points will keep fitting a curve (though wrong a significant fraction of the time) is because we can appeal to a deeper hypothesis that “there’s a causal mechanism generating these points that is similar across time”. When we take our time and do actual science on our universe, our theories tell us that the universe has time-similar causal structures all over the place. Actual science is what licenses quick&dirty science-like heuristics.
Youre subsuming the epistemic problem of induction under the ontologcal problem of induction, but you haven’t offered a solution to the ontologcal problem of induction.
Edit:
How do you know that the world is stable? Effect has followed cause in the past, but stability means that it will also do so in the future..but to think that it will do so in the future because it has done so in the past is inductive reasoning.