ABSTRACT
Assume, along with all working scientists, that either we can solve the problem of induction, or that it is no problem at all, but a pseudo-problem, as many philosophers have suggested. Accept that we can acquire knowledge about the future and about laws by experience. Remember this is the claim of
Not satisfied with Hume’s problem of induction, creative twentieth-century philosophers have created several more fundamental conceptual problems to be overcome by an empiricist epistemology that grounds the general laws and theories characteristic of so much contemporary science. Among these are Hempel’s paradoxes of induction and Goodman’s “new riddle of induction.” Both show how deeply theoretically entrenched hypothesis testing really is.
