When you say that the fact that someone says or believes something is supposed t

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When you say that the fact that someone says or believes something is supposed to be evidence that it is likely to be true, that is a matter of _____. When a sample doesn't represent the population that is being sampled, that is a matter of _____. When you wrongly say that the origins of someone's belief are important to saying whether it is true, that is a matter of _____. When you say that because two things are similar in some respects, then they are probably like each other in other respects, that is a matter of _____.

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Induction is the inference of a general law from particular instances. Irrelevance is the quality or state of being irrelevant.

1. This is induction. The statement talks about facts and inferences.

2. This is irrelavance. This is because the sample is not representative and is therefore of no relevance.

3. This is induction. Even though the statement is not true, there is an inference.

4. This is induction. Because an inference is deduced.

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