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    It is not the case that Carnap's inductive logic demonstrates that logical probability relations between evidence and hypothesis are analytic truths, not contingent guesses about future observations.

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    • 1.Choosing among competing confirmation functions requires empirical facts about which function tracks actual world patterns, not logic alone.
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    • 2.Even if relations are formally analytic, their applicability to real hypotheses depends on contingent facts about evidence reliability and relevance.
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    • 3.Carnap's framework doesn't determine which language structure to adopt—that choice involves substantive assumptions about induction's nature.
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    • 1.Logical probability relations are formally derivable from language structure and definitions, making them true by analysis of concepts.
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    • 2.If inductive support were contingent, we couldn't explain why rational agents universally accept certain evidence-hypothesis relations.
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    • 3.Carnap's confirmation functions are constructed a priori from logical syntax, not empirical observation or psychological habit.
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