PHLA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Circular Reasoning
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Pun gives definite advice about what we should infer from observations we have made. If we want to make inductive inferences about the world, pun is something we must believe no matter what else we believe. A different version of humes argument that induction can"t be rationally justified. A method of inference is high reliable if the predictions it makes are usually true. It involves the idea that a method of inference possesses some degree of reliability. I"ve examined lots of im esmeralds and all have been green. The rule of inference being used is induction. You can"t justify using induction now by appeal to the fact that induction has been successful in the past. To rationally justify induction, you must show that induction will be reliable. To show that induction will be reliable, you must construct an inductive argument or a deductively valid argument.
