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    Challenges→The Nomological-Explanatory solution to the problem of induction begs the question

    A law restricted to only the observed spatio-temporal region could serve as an equally good explanation of the observed data

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    Another critical objection is that the Nomological-Explanatory solution simply begs the question, even if it is taken to be legitimate to make use of IBE in the justification of induction. In the first step of the argument we infer to a law or regularity which extends beyond the spatio-temporal region in which observations have been thus far made, in order to predict what will happen in the future. But why could a law that only applies to the observed spatio-temporal region not be an equally goo

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