Mehmet Akif Çetin: Finally, we looked at Reichenbach’s pragmatic way of living with the problem of induction. On this proposal, one concedes that one lacks a justification for induc- tion, but argues that, nonetheless, employing induction is the most rational thing to do. This is because if any method of inference is going to get us true beliefs about the world, it will be induction. We can thus be assured that induction is the best method available, even if we have no justification for it, and thus, since we have to form beliefs about the world, it is rational to use induction.

Finally, we looked at Reichenbach’s pragmatic way of living with the problem of induction. On this proposal, one concedes that one lacks a justification for induc- tion, but argues that, nonetheless, employing induction is the most rational thing to do. This is because if any method of inference is going to get us true beliefs about the world, it will be induction. We can thus be assured that induction is the best method available, even if we have no justification for it, and thus, since we have to form beliefs about the world, it is rational to use induction.

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