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    Reflective equilibrium is a valid methodology for justify... — Carmelics
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    Reflective equilibrium is a valid methodology for justifying inductive inference rules

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    • 1.Rules of inference can be formulated to explain what one takes to be valid scientific reasoning, analogous to how deductive inference rules explain valid mathematical inferences
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    • 2.When applying inference rules yields conclusions contrary to considered judgment, one can revise either the judgment or the rules until reaching coherence
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    • 3.The process terminates in a reflective equilibrium among considered judgments and the rules that best explain one's inferences
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    • 1.Reflective equilibrium merely codifies existing inferential prejudices, providing no independent standard to distinguish good from bad inductive practice.
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    • 2.Goodman's own 'grue' paradox demonstrates that indefinitely many incompatible rules achieve equilibrium with our considered judgments, leaving the method unable to adjudicate between them.
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    • 3.A justificatory method that cannot resolve rival systems of induction collapses into coherentism, which cannot escape epistemic circularity about which coherent system tracks truth.
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    • 1.Hume established that no non-circular argument can justify induction, and reflective equilibrium presupposes the legitimacy of the very inductive practices it purports to validate.
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    • 2.The disanalogy with deductive inference is fatal: deductive rules are truth-preserving by definition, whereas inductive rules are ampliative and their reliability is precisely what stands in question.
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    Two allied methodologies need to be mentioned that arose along side of naturalized epistemology in the last century. Goodman introduced the concept of a reflective equilibrium in addressing the problem of justifying induction (Goodman 1955). Rules of inference would be formulated to explain what one takes to be valid scientific reasoning, much as one might formulate deductive inference rules to explain valid inferences of mathematicians. Application of these rules may, however, yield conclusions
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