Reichenbach's pragmatic vindication concedes that induction cannot be proven valid, only that if any method works, induction will—which is itself a conditional requiring inductive support.

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Pragmatic vindication(Reichenbach's approach to justifying induction): A way of defending something by showing it's useful or works in practice, rather than proving it's logically perfect.
Reichenbach, Hans(the statement refers to his principle about causation): A 20th-century philosopher and physicist who developed ideas about how we can prove that one thing actually caused another, especially when we only observe them happening together.
Valid (in logic)(Whether the logical steps actually work): When the reasoning in an argument follows the rules of logic correctly, so if the starting points are true, the conclusion must be true.
conditional(no-truth-value account of conditionals): A statement of the form 'if A, B' that involves the supposition that A and tells us nothing about what happens if A is false

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