01:730:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proprioception
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What is hyslop & jackson"s example of helium on the sun supposed to show about principle. Hyslop and jackson"s example of helium on the sun is supposed to show that the principle p is not an obvious variable in the situation. This sense of connection goes beyond the realization that someone is not okay: one general objection to the analogical argument is that it proceeds just from one case, one"s own. A reply to this objection is that it can"t be right because then we wouldn"t know that there"s helium on the sun. For we know that there"s helium on the basis of a similar analogical argument from one case, the behavior of helium on earth. Hyslop and jackson think that this reply is reasonable, and that each circumstance, like the element of helium being on the sun, could be unique to each entity. Set out the traditional problem, making every assumption explicit.