anti-inductive situations: forum for week of 17 October

The example case of the crows seem to be begging for someone to mention the black swan case. Assigning the colour white as 1, with each swan as an item the graph would be a horizontal line, if 16th century Europeans were making this graph (Black swans were populated in New Zealand and Australia). The black swan was an expression as a statement of impossibility at the time, as all historical records of swans were white. The discovery of new and unexpected empirical evidence demonstrates the fragility of induction and pattern-seeking.