{"id":1701,"date":"2008-12-27T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2008-12-27T22:28:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T22:28:41","slug":"inductive-turkeys-get-their-bacon-cooked-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/12\/27\/inductive-turkeys-get-their-bacon-cooked-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Inductive Turkeys Get Their Bacon Cooked At Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the last remnants of Christmas turkey\u00a0fall to\u00a0sandwich and soup, forget not Bertrand Russell’s musings on the\u00a0fate of turkeys\u00a0subscribing \u00a0to Francis Bacon’s philosophy of inductivist scientific reasoning.<\/p>\n

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On\u00a0his first day at the farm, the turkey noted he was fed at 9.00 am.\u00a0 After this procedure had been repeated for many weeks, the turkey relaxed a bit, safely drawing the conclusion\u00a0“I am always fed at 9 am”.\u00a0 Regrettably for the turkey, this conclusion was proved wrong on Christmas eve when, rather than\u00a0being fed, he got his throat cut.\u00a0 Which just goes to show that\u00a0any number of true observations can still lead to a false conclusion;\u00a0the turkey’s argument was\u00a0simply not logical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the last remnants of Christmas turkey\u00a0fall to\u00a0sandwich and soup, forget not Bertrand Russell’s musings on the\u00a0fate of turkeys\u00a0subscribing \u00a0to Francis Bacon’s philosophy of inductivist scientific reasoning. They don’t see it coming (photo WikiCommons) On\u00a0his first day at the farm, the turkey noted he was fed at 9.00 am.\u00a0 After this procedure had been repeated … Continue reading Inductive Turkeys Get Their Bacon Cooked At Christmas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,449],"tags":[453,425,455,451,452,454,1417,450],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-bertrand-russell","tag-christmas","tag-empiricism","tag-francis-bacon","tag-inductive-reasoning","tag-inductivism","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}