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An empirical generalization (like "All swans are white") can be established conclusively by experience.

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An empirical generalization (like "All swans are white") can be established conclusively by experience.

No matter how many times we've observed a swan and found it to be white, it still could happen that the next swan we observe will be black.

So experience can never make an empirical generalization certain.

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2 is correct!

An empirical generalization (like "All swans are white") can be established conclusively by experience.

No matter how many times we've observed a swan and found it to be white, it still could happen that the next swan we observe will be black.

So experience can never make an empirical generalization certain.

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