This post is an introduction to the method of inductive reasoning and the problem of induction. It also introduces an interesting answer to the problem, called cross-induction(this post is more or less a transcription of a video that I made a couple of months ago, feel free to check it out:)
Why do you think there's going to be a tomorrow? The future is uncertain. You don’t know what it brings. But still you make claims about it. Claims like:
The sun will rise tomorrow.
We don’t know that. But still, we all believe that. Why? What’s our rational justification for believing anything about the future?
This post provides a short explanation of Russell's teapot and is basically a transcription of a video that I made a couple of months ago (feel free to check it out):
Imagine I make the following claim:
There is a teapot - which is too small to be seen by telescopes - and it orbits the sun somewhere around mars.
Let's say I don't offer any proof or evidence for my claim. Would you take my claim to be true?
This analogy was put forth by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), who wanted to demonstrate that even though no one can disprove the existence of such a teapot (since we said that it's too small to be observed anyways), he would expect no one to believe in its existence either.
