- Hope's own issues with not being super intelligent

For the record, Elliot is totally pretending to have a beard in panel four.

Past me wanted to avoid Ellen saying "most seyunolus will want this certain thing" (quite the assumption!).

In this case, however, it does seem pretty reasonable (it's fixing a universal medical issue), and "most will want" is a clearer example of "it might be true, but there could definitely be exceptions."

Examples

Inductive reasoning can range from weak and "so-so strength, but probably good enough in context" to "this is super strong, never skips leg day, and is true 99.9999% of the time."

What are good examples of inductive reasoning are also going to depend on who you ask and whether they're a philosopher, scientist, mathematician, or some Venn Diagram of the three.

And possibly Sherlock Holmes? Much to my surprise, Sherlock Holmes referenced induction during The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (yes, Napoleon somehow came up again). I'm not one hundred percent he knew what it was, he gave a lot of examples of things being figured out, but I was very pleasantly surprised to hear it. There's still the majority of original Holmes I haven't listened to, and I'm hoping he brings up inductive reasoning more than just then.

Anyway, I consider Elliot's very simple inductive reasoning a good example of the sort of reasoning we all tend to do.

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- Saturday EGSNP