On Truth and Falsity

                       The Reality of Induction

The skeptics invalidate induction logic just as they do all forms of human logic except their own. pb. OP p.164. But they ignore the fact that inductive systems only fail because particular sense objects or thought objects are added or subtracted from an isolated inductive system. If a scientist repeats an experiment again and again and always obtains the same result, but one day gets a different result, he will immediately conduct an investigation to discover whatever happened to be added or subtracted from his experiment that caused it to deliver a different result. That scientist will do that because they all know that as long as the elements of an inductive system remain the same, that inductive system will always yield the same result.

The fact that the sun rises every morning is an inductive system. That inductive system will never fail as long as all of the elements that hold the earth in orbit around the sun remain the same. Only if, for some reason, gravity fails, or the sun explodes, or some other drastic event happens, will that inductive system fail. The skeptics happen to be wrong about inductive systems because they ignore the fact that an inductive system can always be changed by the addition or subtraction of other elements.