HPS100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Inductive Reasoning, Logical Form
3 Oct 2016
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Chapter 6 - philosophical interlude: problems and puzzles of induction. David hume was the first to notice a puzzling aspect of inductive reasoning, and his observation is now referred to as. Then we reason, we present or consider arguments, our arguments almost always contain implied premises. Implied premises are premises that are necessary in order for the reasoning to be plausible. If someone says there"s a bus that goes from one place to another that we can take on sunday, the implied premise is that the bus runs on sundays. There is a bus that runs from your house to a restaurant. [the buses run on sundays] (brackets = implied premises) therefore you can take the bus to a lunch meeting this sunday. Hume"s problem of induction concerns inferences involving the future. [in our past experience, the sun has always risen in the east] Therefore in the future, the sun will probably continue to rise in the east.
