And if I release two balloons they will have “uniform upward acceleration at close to 9.8 meters per second squared until terminal velocity”. For proper law like things you expect them to hold with no or minimal revision. That it is a compression makes application to new cases complicated. How do you compress something you don’t have access to?
How do you know that a given blue piece of paper is a blueprint for a given fence?
The degree of reasonableness comes from stuff like 5001 post fence and a 4999 post fence being both possible. If induction was rock solid then you would very fast or immidietly believe in an infinite length fence. But induction is unreliable and points in a different direction than just checking whether each post is there. Yet we often find ourself ina situation where we have made some generalization checked, them some but not exhaustively and would like to call our epistemic state as “knowing” the fact.
And if I release two balloons they will have “uniform upward acceleration at close to 9.8 meters per second squared until terminal velocity”. For proper law like things you expect them to hold with no or minimal revision. That it is a compression makes application to new cases complicated. How do you compress something you don’t have access to?
How do you know that a given blue piece of paper is a blueprint for a given fence?
The degree of reasonableness comes from stuff like 5001 post fence and a 4999 post fence being both possible. If induction was rock solid then you would very fast or immidietly believe in an infinite length fence. But induction is unreliable and points in a different direction than just checking whether each post is there. Yet we often find ourself ina situation where we have made some generalization checked, them some but not exhaustively and would like to call our epistemic state as “knowing” the fact.