Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sesamoid Bone, Fallacy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Hume"s negative thesis: induction has to do with predicting the future and we predict the future based on similarity relations. But there"s no way you can know that the future can resemble the past. Hume"s positive thesis: habit of assuming that the future will resemble the past. It"s an instinct it"s something that"s genetically predefined. We have a habit of doing it and we may not be right but we usually are. Entrenchment the term must have some past history of use within a culture or language. All emeralds thus seen are green so all emeralds are green. The most reliable inductions come from kinds: apples and pears maybe, apples and red balls maybe not. How people arrive at a statement of confidence that a conclusion category has a predicate after being told that one or more premise categories have it: boys use gaba as a neurotransmitter therefore girls use it too.