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    It is not the case that Showing that inductive inference is a necessary condition of success provides sufficient justification for using inductive inference

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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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    • 1.The necessity argument assumes a fixed goal of predictive success, but rival methods like falsificationism or Bayesian updating also claim that same goal.
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    • 2.If multiple incompatible inference rules are each necessary for some success-conducive goal, necessity alone cannot adjudicate between them as justified.
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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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