PHL246H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Empty Set, Pseudoscience, Kathleen Wynne
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Answer the following 10 questions in as short a way as possible. We will ignore the 2 answers with the lowest score so that the maximum score is 100% points. Question 1: who is your favorite probability theorist/inductive logician? (justin bieber and carly rae. Jepsen do not count, and kathleen wynne and rob ford are borderline cases that would only get you. Data (evidence) can come from controlled experiments and from observations. Question 4 and question 5: formulate hume"s argument for the thesis that it is impossible for us to justify the principle of induction. Premise 1: in order to justify the principle of induction we have to provide a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument whose premises we can know and whose conclusion is the principle of induction. Conclusion: there is no deductively valid or inductively strong argument whose premises we can know and whose conclusion is the principle of induction.
