DEDUCTION AND INDUCTION
TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —Your correspondence columns of the last few days provide a neat example of V the extraordinary capacity shown by many members of this community to absorb new ideas without any attempt at critical examination. Major Douglas dav.tcd the first part of his address in Dunedin to a comparison between independent reasoning and blind reliance on authority. Unfortunately tie used the words “ deductive ” and “ inductive ” as if he considered that all deductive reasoning is unsound and that inductive reasoning was introduced for the first time by Francis Bacon. Probably he does not so believe and did not intend to convey that impression, but it is certainly the impression he did convey. Actually the fallacy which he used in illustration is an example of faulty induction. The interesting thing is that since his -address this novel rnisuse of the terms has appeared at least twice in letters to the Daily Times, on each occasion in a letter from a Douglas supporter. —I am. etc.. Scientia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22197, 26 February 1934, Page 10
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