PHLA10H3 Chapter 16: Philosophy Chapter 16 txbk notes.docx
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Recall: hume"s skepticism essentially states that we cannot make predictions because they are not rationally justifiable. If pun states that nature is uniform in every way, than hume is wrong in stating that we always make this assumption. We know that leaves change colour (this doesn"t reflect uniformity) highly reliable if the predictions it makes are usually true: one suggestion is that you can gauge the reliability of hypothesises by comparing them - Hume denied this idea stating that it cannot be rationally justified. Rule of inference = allows you to draw conclusions from a premise why are we allowed to do this: every argument must use a rule of inference to licence the transition from its premises to its conclusion. To rationally justify induction, you must show that induction will be reliable. To show that induction is reliable, you must construct an inductive argument or deductively valid argument.
