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Showing that inductive inference is a necessary condition of success provides sufficient justification for using inductive inference

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1.If there is any method that will achieve success, inductive inference is that method
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2.A course of action that is a necessary condition of achieving a goal is rationally justified even under uncertainty about whether the goal will be achieved
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1.Showing induction is necessary for success only establishes its indispensability, not its truth-conduciveness or epistemic legitimacy.
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2.A method can be pragmatically unavoidable yet still fail to confer genuine justification on beliefs formed through it, as Hume's fork implies.
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3.Pragmatic vindication conflates instrumental rationality with epistemic rationality, which are distinct normative domains per Reichenbach's own critics.
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