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    The claim that 'we are justified in believing that the As... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Rowe's account of the reasoning involved may not be satisfactory.

    The claim that 'we are justified in believing that the As we haven't observed are also Bs' can be interpreted in more than one way.

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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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