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induction. The first and weakest kind of inductive
reasoning is that which goes on the presumption that future
experience as to the matter in hand will not be utterly at variance with
all past experience.*

(Foot-note)
*When I say that it goes on that presumption, I do
not mean to say, as some logicians do that it I merely mean to describe
the presumption of the reasoning as being that the particular uniformity
that as to a certain matter that has attached to past experience will
be maintained in the future. I shall explain below why how there is a certain
justification in this, though a very slender one. I do not mean to say,

G48

induction. The first and weakest kind of inductive reasoning is that which goes on the presumption that future experience as to the matter in hand will not be utterly at variance with all past experience.*

(Foot-note)
*When I say that it goes on that presumption, I merely mean to describe the presumption of the reasoning as being that the particular uniformity as to a certain matter that has attached to past experience will be maintained in the future. I shall explain below how there is a certain justification in this, though a very slender one. I do not mean to say,