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    Rowe's account of the reasoning involved may not be satis... — Carmelics
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    Rowe's account of the reasoning involved may not be satisfactory.

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    • 1.Rowe's claim that 'if we observe many As and note that all of them are Bs we are justified in believing that the As we haven't observed are also Bs' is somewhat ambiguous.
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    First, Rowe is right that a criticism of type (A) does involve “radical skepticism of inductive reasoning in general”. But, secondly, having granted that point, how satisfactory is Rowe’s account of the reasoning involved? To answer that question, what one needs to notice is that Rowe’s claim that “if we observe many \(A\)s and note that all of them are \(B\)s we are justified in believing that the \(A\)s we haven’t observed are also \(B\)s” is somewhat ambiguous, since while the claim that “we are justified in believing that the \(A\)s we haven’t observed are also \(B\)s” might naturally be ...

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