PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Inductive Reasoning, Circular Reasoning
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Knowledge can be divided into 2 things: relations of ideas: intuitively or demonstratively certain . Things that come from math, algebra, geometry, tectonic solids: matters of facts: the contrary is still possible;because it can never imply a contradiction . The sun will rise tomorrow is a matters of fact. Knowledge: relations of ideas demonstrative reason deduction, matters of facts probabilistic or moral reason induction. Goop stickers that claim if you put it on your body and it will help you detox, or hydrate you. However, we do not know if what gwyneth claims is true or not but we just justify its true. Fact: after i stick my hand in a fire, my hand is burnt. We see it, pain, water in our cells turn to gas. We justify this by just saying that it"s because the fire caused it that my hand is burnt.
