How do we call the following kind of reasoning?
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at
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It’s like that line in Twister:
Shouted from inside of truck: "Cow!"
Moments later: "Another Cow!"
From the backseat on the cellphone: "I have to let you go, we’re having cows."
Driver of Truck: "Actually, I think that’s the same one."
Inertial Inductiuon? The idea that things tend to continue to be as they have been in the past, that trends do not suffer catastrophic changes in the same way that geology decided that catastrophism is probably inappropriate to explain earth’s history?
Its called induction. We gather evidence about the world around us and assume that the world will continue to be as our evidence suggests. The more observations we have the better our chances of being able to predict future events. But you can’t count all the cars in the world, and even if you thought you did, you could never be sure that you got them all; so your answer is always going to be probable but never certain.
It is call the pre-conceptual science.
Pre-conceptual science is the reaching a conclusion before doing research
then simply dismissing anything contrary to your preconceived notions
Typical. I see Cooper Minis on tow trucks every day. Does that mean they have better contracts with Triple A?