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does not conform to it, other similar deductions will.
Induction on the other hand mentions
a ratio and says that if it be not quite
right, further inductions will make it
right. Both inferences virtually assert
that there is such a statistical uniformity that samples
of experience will in the long run represent the whole
long run of experience. In regard to any particular
statistical ratio this is not necessarily
the case, because there may not be any definite ratio in the long run.

Thus you see that although induction
does not necessarily lead to the truth in
any particular case and does not even