From similarity to chance

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“In reality, all arguments from experience are founded on the similarity which we discover among natural objects, and by which we are induced to expect effects similar to those which we have found to follow from such objects. ... From causes which appear similar we expect similar effects.”.

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Similarity and induction.Matthew Weber & Daniel Osherson - 2010 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (2):245-264.

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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1973 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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