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20 Post author: moridinamael 27 June 2013 03:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2013 05:41:41AM 1 point [-]

There's one hallmark of truly bad concepts: they actively work against correct induction.

Sir Karl Popper (among others) made some strong arguments that induction is a bad concept.