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    Salmon and Reichenbach established that the problem of in... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Analogue confirmation is not vulnerable to the Dutch Book logical difficulties that affect ampliative rules

    Salmon and Reichenbach established that the problem of induction infects not just rule-following but the prior probabilities assigned to structural similarities between systems.

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    • 1.Prior probability assignments require justification, which itself requires inductive reasoning, creating regress.
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    • 2.Structural similarity judgments depend on background assumptions that cannot be derived from observation alone.
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    • 3.Both Salmon and Reichenbach recognized that reference classes for induction are underdetermined by data.
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    • 1.Reichenbach's pragmatic vindication of induction bypasses the need to justify priors; it succeeds regardless.
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    • 2.Modern Bayesian approaches treat priors as framework choices, not knowledge claims requiring independent justification.
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    • 3.Structural similarity can be grounded in objective physical properties, not merely conventional probability assignments.
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