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    Past success of Pythagorean analogies in physics provides reason to continue using them

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    • 1.Similar strategies have worked well in the past
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    • 1.Inductive inference from past success to future reliability commits the problem Hume identified: no non-circular justification exists for inductive reasoning itself.
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    • 2.Pythagorean analogies have also generated physically fruitless dead-ends (e.g., Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum), so the historical record is mixed, not uniformly confirmatory.
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    • 1.Laudan's pessimistic meta-induction shows that historically successful scientific strategies are routinely abandoned as frameworks change, undermining confidence in their continuation.
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    • 2.The success of Pythagorean analogies may reflect contingent features of classical physics rather than a stable method transferable across paradigm shifts.
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    Recasting analogy as a deductive argument may help to bring out background assumptions, but it makes little headway with the problem of justification. That problem re-appears as the need to state and establish the plausibility of a determination rule, and that is at least as difficult as justifying the original analogical argument. 2 Inductive justification Some philosophers have attempted to portray, and justify, analogical reasoning in terms of some well-understood inductive argument pattern.
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