ABSTRACT
Instances of universal generalizations provide inductive justification for those generalizations because they provide justification for the world having a stable and specifiable nature. Deductive thinking involves logically conclusive reasoning; inductive thinking does not. The latter usually begins with observations and derives a universal generalization or a prediction. Their experiences of apparently observing sheep, and the fact that they have been veridical experiences, supposedly justify they in thinking that all such experiences are veridical. By being inductively justified in thinking that whatever seems to be a sheep is a sheep, they are also inductively justified in thinking that whenever, in the future, something seems to be a sheep, it is one. In other words, because past observations of what have seemed to be sheep were accurate, they have inductive justification for thinking that, in the future, whatever seem to be sheep will be sheep.
