 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
What I am saying is that, genetically and causally, there is no important difference between the most elaborate induction and the most elementary "learned reaction." The one is merely a developed form of the other, not something radically different. And our determination to believe in the results of induction, even if, as logicians, we see no reason to do so, is really due to the potency of the principle of association; it is an example-perhaps the most important example of what Dr. Santayana calls "animal faith."
Source: Outline of Philosophy, 1927, chapter 7: Inference as a habit.
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