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Yes absolutely, but logic aspires to be useful in the world. Therefore it seems important whether all ravens are black because all white ones have been culled a minute ago, because the word raven is defined as a black bird with some additional features, or because the genetic pattern of ravens causes them to always be black. Each of those possibilities would have very different consequences for inductive reasoning.


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