Thread: Problem of Induction

Originally Posted by tommo

You can never be sure of anything, unless you have "faith" of course; anything can only be on a scale probability.

We can be fairly sure something would continue to do the same thing, because there is no reason to expect that it wouldn't stay the same. There is no data suggesting it would change at any time. No forces we can figure out which would cause it to change.

I'm not sure, I think there is some theoretical work based on the possibility that the constants of nature are dynamical. If that's possible, it doesn't seem to far of a stretch that the change could accelerate at any time, since we really can't be sure about the nature of the universe, only give our best guess. I think we can only hope things will stay the same for convenience.

Originally Posted by tommo

It was an example. You don't argue with examples.

Sorry if you think I was arguing, I was just addressing one of your points which happened to be an example lol