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Various - Open Minded Ethics: Might We Need Induction for Ethical Reasons?

(based on a discussion with Chris Hoeckley, Kevin Sharpe, Jim Taylor and David Vander Laan) 

I.  Simple-minded question about logical methodology:  Why do we bother to recognize induction as a separate category of inference?  Why not treat all inferences as deductive, but with a probabilistic qualification built into the conclusions of some of them? 

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