False. You are using language like, just as a particular chunk of iron
will always be ballance by a particular weight on a scale when clearly
your position is not deductive.
The problem of induction is the philosophical question of whether
inductive reasoning is valid. That is, what is the justification for
either:
1. generalizing about the properties of a class of objects based on
some number of observations of particular instances of that class (for
example, the inference that "all swans we have seen are white, and
therefore all swans are white," before the discovery of black swans);
or
2. presupposing that a sequence of events in the future will occur
as it always has in the past (for example, that the laws of physics
will hold as they have always been observed to hold).
The problem calls into question all empirical claims made in everyday
life or through the scientific method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Q7kUFS-0XQ
