Counterinduction

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Counterinduction is the idea that one should assume the opposite of what induction suggests. For example:

"The Sun has risen every day in the past, therefore I think that it will not rise tomorrow."

In most references to counterinduction, it is not suggested that counterinduction logically holds, but it is used in an argument to attempt to disprove the idea of induction.

Paul Feyerabend's anarchist theory popularized the notion of counterinduction.

Counterinduction is a new music ensemble founded by composers Doug Boyce and Kyle Bartlett.