EduGlu Sandbox

It’s now only 4 weeks until I’ll be flying off to Ethiopia - my flight details arrived this week. I also now have only 2 weeks (till end Aug) left working at the OU, I’ve been at the OU for over 7 years and don’t think it’s sunk in yet that I’m actually going , though having the flight details makes everything somewhat more real!

(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?