SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Karl Popper, Inductive Reasoning, Descriptive Knowledge
25 Oct 2018
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Says we are built in such a way that when two things are constantly conjoined in. Hume experience and one of them appears, we automatically believe the other one will appear even without any rational justification; it doesn"t matter, this is how we are built. Moral: we are creatures of nature, not reason . The real lesson is that reason has a lot less to do with what we think/say/do than we are inclined to imagine. Our minds work in the same ways as other organisms; we are the same as other animals in terms of the way we think. There is no fancy faculty of reasoning that guides what we do and say, it"s done in an automatic, instinctive way just as it is in other organisms. Inductive reasoning is too important for our survival to give up and just go with. Reasoning ; nature takes it out of your hands.
