 Of course, this justification is circular, as Mill realizes. If we are warranted in believing that induction is in general a good way of reasoning only to the extent that our past inductions are themselves taken to have been good inferences, then the question remains how those inductions can be warranted forms of inference (cf.  Fumerton 2009: 167–8). Mill’s second answer, which we might term his initiating validation of induction, addresses this issue. 