Discussion Project on Induction

Discuss and try to agree on answers to the following questions (the questions refer to Chapter 11 in Modern Epistemology.):

1.  How does the example of 'cat' show the way that concepts involve generalizations?

2.  How do the examples of 

        a) Harry and the arsenic and 

        b) the building and the pile of ashes

    show the way that inference involves background beliefs?

3.  How do the authors use these ideas to 'solve' the problem of induction?