Psychology 3130A/B Lecture 3: Psychology of Thinking Lecture 3-Induction.docx

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

Document Summary

Why is this wrong? category: because you"ve only seen a small subset of the. The problem of induction: what is the problem of induction. What are the grounds for such inductive or causal inferences: hume: Induction is being able to predict the future based on past events. Reasoning is founded on the relation of cause and effect: hume"s negative thesis. So just because you made a correct induction yesterday, doesn"t mean you will be correct today. Our knowledge of causal relations is not attainable through demonstrative reasoning, but is acquired through past experiences. From causes, which appear similar, we expect similar effects: descriptive: Justificatory: suggests that there is no actual process of reflective thought that takes us from the observed to the unobserved, suggests that there is no possible line of reasoning that, hume"s positive thesis could do so. Argues that it is custom or habit that leads us to make inferences in accordance with past regularities.