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> "Pattern knowledge, such as riding a bicycle, which we tend to learn in ways similar to the current machine learning trend. In some ways, this is "deductive knowledge". "

Deduction is given a rule and cause, find (deduce) the effect, whereas Induction is given cause and effect, induce the rule. Isn't machine learning more inductive (given observations and outcome, induce the decision function)?

I found the road trip part of the book enjoyable, but the philosophy (Quality) talk a bit drawn out and something I didn't get. Have been intermittently reading it, but haven't finished it yet.