Stilwell, Phil: ✶ Induction Before Deduction: Human Epistemic Priority, Formal Rules, and the Non-Self-Authorization of Logic

Deduction is often introduced as the clean room of reason: once the premises and rules are fixed, necessity takes over. I keep that formal achievement intact while denying a stronger myth about it. Deduction is not self-authorizing for finite human knowers. Human confidence that a rule should be used, that a system applies to a domain, that premises have been correctly identified, and that symbolic operations have been reliably performed depends on inductive learning, empirical correction, socia