SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inductive Reasoning
28 Oct 2018
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People are tempted to believe that they already know what is going to happen. Use reason to predict events that are familiar (ex. billiard balls) Hume argues experience leads to our conclusion rather than reason. Causes & effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience . Need experience in order to figure things out. How can you think about something happening without having any experience with it. In vain, therefore should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause and effect, without the assistance of observation and experience. Harder to reason about things that one is more familiar with. Adam would not know that he would drown in a pond in the garden of eden unless he gets in the pond & submerges himself. Many outcomes are conceivable (no logical reason that they could not happen) > no way to know what will happen without experience.
