PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Foundationalism, Phantom Limb, Lewis Carroll
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Similar to pascal"s wager consider the payoffs for your actions. You don"t know what b is going to do. There is no answer, this is not a logic puzzle. When this is played with people, they learn who they can trust, and would remain silent. Lewis carroll: what the tortoise said to achilles: http://www. ditext/carroll/tortoise. html: you cannot state every premise as true in the argument to reach a conclusion. Note the difference between a premise of an argument and a rule of inference. Black argues that an argument is circular just in case the conclusion appears (maybe only implicitly) among the premises: don"t use if , but just state. On that understanding, the inductive argument in favour of induction is not circular: it just uses the inductive rule of inference. No, because counter-induction (ci) is equally supported by a counter- inductive argument: ci = if x has happened in the past, expect not-x.
