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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 16 November 2011 11:11:39PM 7 points [-]

The skeptic would continue:

"Why should we treat the observation of several occurrences of Right, as evidence for 'The next ball will land on the right.' and not as evidence for 'The next ball will land reft of the line.'?"

It's evidence for both.

The solution to the grue problem is a combination of biting the bullet and Occam's razor

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