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When you do it, it's the slippery slope logical fallacy. When I do it, it's logical induction, a necessary component of reasoning about the world.


But if everyone started correctly applying logical induction for every piece of reasoning, we'd all become mindless robotic automata, hardly better than giant abacuses, and art, hope and love would die.


> logical induction, a necessary component of reasoning about the world

Bah! You're only saying that because induction worked the last n times ;)




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