PHIL 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ascendant, Causal Inference, Pyrrhonism
20 Jan 2016
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Problem of induction custom and habit, belief, problem of the criterion (what are we going to measure our claims about the world by?) Hume is an irrationalist about all beliefs we have about the world he offers us an irrationalist. A priori demonstrative (math and logic; abstract ideas), and a posteriori reasoning (matters of fact), account of causal inference which are distinct. Pg 543: no object ever discovers either the causes which produced it or the effects which rise from it. Nor can reason unassisted by experience ever draw any real inference concerning matters of fact. We shift to a different kind of reasoning when we discuss matters of fact. When you eat bread, you think there is a connection between bread and nourishment. For locke, a yellow lemon is an object with powers in it to produce yellow qualities in me.
