PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Inductive Reasoning
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Lecture 21 ~ hume - an enquiry into human understanding. David hume: problem of induction, critic of causation. Relations of ideas: a: interior angles of a triangle must equal 180 degree . Matters of facts: the contrary is still possible; because it can never imply a contradiction, sky is blue . Unjusti ed reasoning: when the sun rises, god must be real . What justi es knowledge: fact: after i stick my hand in a re, my hand is burnt. Why does this happened: all reasoning about ammeters of facts seem to be based on the relation of cause and e ect . Inductive reasoning must be cause and e ect c. What justi es cause and e ect: fact: after the rooster crows, the sun rises. Why does this happened? (it just happens: knowledge of cause and e ect = a priori and posteriori reasonings, we got to use posteriori reasoning, cause and e ect = experience.
