Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hypotenuse, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
13 Nov 2013
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Link between cause and effect relationships: hume: some biography, hume"s fork Three times five is equal to half of thirty . The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides . Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths demonstrated by euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence. Not ascertained (discovered) in the same manner as relations of ideas. Our evidence of their truth is not of the same nature as that of relations of ideas. The contrary of any matter of fact is possible: Perfectly true that these facts are false. (bread poisonous to humans, peter is not in. All reasonings concerning matters of fact seem to be founded on the relation of cause and effect.
