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    Argument S cannot convince a skeptic who rejects inductive inference

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    • 1.Hume's circularity argument shows that justifying induction requires assuming induction, making it logically inaccessible to a prior skeptic.
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    • 2.Any argument appealing to induction's past success as evidence of future reliability already presupposes the very inferential standard under dispute.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that inferential rules derive force only within a shared form of life the skeptic has already rejected.
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    • 2.A skeptic who withholds commitment to basic inferential norms occupies a position that no argument internal to those norms can rationally compel.
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    • 1.Argument S can be used to support inference X only for someone already prepared to infer inductively using S
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    • 2.A skeptic is not prepared to rely upon inductive inference rules in the first place
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    Argument S can be used to support inference X, but only for someone who is already prepared to infer inductively by using S. It cannot convince a skeptic who is not prepared to rely upon that rule in the first place. One might think then that the argument is simply not achieving very much.
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