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    Challenges→Justification of an inductive inference does not require a chain of reasoning from premises to a certain conclusion

    It would suffice for justification to have an argument from premises to the claim that the conclusion is probable or likely

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    The first horn of Hume’s argument, as formulated above, is aimed at establishing that there is no demonstrative argument for the UP. There are several ways people have attempted to show that the first horn does not definitively preclude a demonstrative or a priori argument for inductive inferences. One possible escape route from the first horn is to deny premise P3, which amounts to admitting the possibility of synthetic a priori propositions (section 3.1). Another possibility is to attempt

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