This problem, first discussed by Hume in his Treatise of Human Nature (Book I, part 3, section 6) but prefigured already by ancient sceptics like Sextus Empiricus (see the entry on ancient skepticism), is that there is no proper justification for inferences that run from given experience to expectations about the future.
Justification for an inference model typically rests on whether we feel it adequately captures the essence of the system.
This is some justification for this inference as most Thai people, particularly adolescents and adults, dislike reading, preferring to listen to information presented on the radio and watching television (Thai National Statistics Organisation [ 52].
So there is currently no epistemic justification for inductive statistical inference of any kind; much less for Ockham's razor.
When one's belief q derives its justification from the justification that one has for another belief p in this way, it has become customary to say that the justification for p transmits to q across the inferential link from p to q. Transmission of justification across inference is a valuable and indeed ubiquitous epistemic phenomenon in everyday life and science.
Popperian falsification has been used to argue for the justification of one inference method over others (one out of many ways of measuring goodness-of-fit of characters to phylogenetic trees is claimed as uniquely capturing the idea of falsification; for review, see Faith and Trueman 2001).
The direction of justification here mirrors the direction of justification in inference to the best explanation.
In one sense, it seems quite straightforward to give a deductive justification for some favored set of rules of inference.
Indeed, this inference remains the basic justification for the continued use of mtDNA in most ancient DNA studies.
6.438 Algorithms for Inference.
In the argument-based validity framework, researchers first formulate an interpretive argument (or a framework to examine a test and provide justification for test interpretation and use), which includes inferences, warrants, assumptions, backing, and rebuttal.
