HPS100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2,6: Nelson Goodman, Inductive Reasoning
9 Feb 2016
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Theory of representational perception our sense (vison, taste, sound) provide a representation of things in the external world. We cannot know whether are representation"s provided by our sense are accurate. Two explanations proving why we cannot know whether our senses are accurate: assessing the accuracy of representations. In order to assess the representation"s our sense provide us are accurate we need to compare the representation with the thing being represented (for ex; a photograph of a tower with the actual tower) We cannot compare our representations therefore we cannot guarantee our senses are accurate: total recall scenario. Movie in which individuals would hook you up to device and give you virtual sensations that would make you believe that you are seeing is reality we never truly know whether what we are experiencing. David hume (1711-76) recognized a puzzling aspect of inductive reasoning. We believed in the implied premise that the future will be like the past .
