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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 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,