An example of this problem is conjecturing that all swans are white based on only having seen white swans.
This problem was addressed by arguing that most subsets of a population are representative samples in Donald Stove's work The Rationality of [this]. W. V. O. Quine dismissed a famous response to this problem by stating that only predicates of a "natural kind" can be legitimately used. That response discussed two predicates dependent on an arbitrary fixed time and was termed the (*) "New Riddle" of this by its author Nelson Goodman. Karl Popper argued this problem was irrelevant as it supposed a need for justification when in reality scientific theories are better tested by their falsifiability. An example of this problem is conjecturing that all swans are white based on only having seen white swans. For 10 points, name this problem, which in broad terms asks how we can know anything from a certain kind of reasoning often contrasted with deductive reasoning.
This problem was addressed by arguing that most subsets of a population are representative samples in Donald Stove's work The Rationality of [this].
problem of induction or inductive reasoning