HPS100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2, 6: Quasar
7 Apr 2016
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Correspondence theories of truth - about what makes a belief truth. Perception involving all the senses e. g. sight, sound, taste etc. Senses provide representations of things in the external world. There is no way to assess the accuracy of the representations our senses provide. Comparing the representation with the thing being represented. Images of a realistic experience being implanted into one"s mind. We cannot know for sure what reality is like. Chapter 6 - philosophical interlude: problems and puzzles of induction. Implied premise: the future will continue to be like the past. Which cannot be justified due to circular reasoning. Premise is the conclusion trying to be justified. Hume"s problem covers all inferences about the future. Hume"s question is whether or not we can logically justify our inferences. Statement (a): all quasars are located a great distance from earth. Statement (b): all objects not located a great distance from earth are not quasars.
