In a message dated 8/17/2005 3:36:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bertrand Russell gave an example to demonstrate the often weak conclusions you can reach by induction. A chicken woke up every morning and was fed by the farmer. The chicken concluded that he would be fed every day. One day he woke up, expecting to be fed, and the farmer cut off his head.
-- Cheers, Bob ========= Hehehehehe. My father (an engineer) was big on anti-inductive reasoning. He would do arguments like that when I was a kid to show the possible fallacies inherent in that system. (Which is probably why I later took two philosophy/logic classes in college, just for fun.) Thanks for the flashback, that's a good one. I'll have to remember it. Marnie aka Doe
