observe something over and over again, you may conclude that some general principle is true. For example, when you repeatedly drop an object off a table, you naturally observe that the object always falls to the floor. If you do that enough, you finally realize that there must be some general principle in place known as gravity. This method of drawing general conclusions from specific observations is called induction (which is commonly equated with the scientific method). In order to be clear, we
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