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    It is not the case that Insistence on the single-case induction analysis of analogical reasoning is likely to lead to skepticism about analogical reasoning

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    • 1.Most analogical arguments will not meet the conditions required for justified single-case induction
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    • 2.If the only legitimate form of analogical reasoning is one most analogical arguments cannot satisfy, the result is general skepticism
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    • 1.Mill's single-case induction requires unobserved background uniformity assumptions that analogical arguments structurally cannot verify from one instance.
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    • 2.Without verified uniformity, single-case inductive warrant collapses into mere assertion, making analogical conclusions epistemically unjustified by that standard.
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    • 3.An evaluative framework that systematically disqualifies its target domain's core cases entails skepticism about that domain, as Goodman showed with projectibility.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that inductive justification requires repeated observations establishing regularities, which single-case reasoning definitionally lacks.
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    • 2.Analogical reasoning in law, science, and ethics routinely operates on structurally unique cases where repetition is impossible, not merely absent.
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