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February 26th, 2011, 4:04 pm

Without accepting induction, you cannot do anything. There is no practical reason not to touch a burning stove as you have no basis for believing the fire will burn you or even that the stove exists at all. Indeed, you would no reason to eat, no reason to believe eating more likely to fend off painful hunger and death by starvation than not. Accepting induction is the epitome of being practical, I think.

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