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A defense of this concept by Max Black invoked R. B. Braithwaite’s distinction of premise-circular arguments and rule-circular ones. To resolve a paradox about this concept, I. J. Good rejected Nicod’s criterion regarding an example with a white shoe. Lawlike generalizations are a proposed solution to a problem named for this concept in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. (10[1])Carl Hempel’s (10[1])namesake paradox concerns using this process to find evidence that all ravens are black. (10[1])Nelson Goodman used the terms grue and bleen in a (10[1])“New Riddle” of this process that builds on David Hume, (-5[1])who claimed that there was no way (-5[1])to justify statements such as “the sun will rise” (10[1])tomorrow. For 10 points, name this process of using observations to make (10[1])inferences, often contrasted (10[1])with deduction. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: induction [or inductive reasoning]
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