SOC SCI H1G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Karl Popper, Inductive Reasoning, Descriptive Knowledge

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

All inference from experience, therefore, are effects of custom, not reasoning. Custom is the guide of human life. Uses custom to say that we are built in such a way that when two things are constantly conjoined in our experience and we see one of those events, we associate them with each other (cause and effect) Moral: we are creatures, not of reason reason/ rationality has much less to do with what we think/ say/ do. Inductive reasoning is too important to your survival; you are not responsible enough to decide whether or not you want to use inductive inference (nature is) instinct/ mechanical power. Knowledge that (propositional knowledge)/ knowing how (operational knowledge) Knowledge how matters more to hume than knowledge that . Philosophers today have no way of finding a rational justification; we cannot answer hume in his own terms. Responses to hume"s point of view (inductive skepticism) (these don"t work) Hume"s conception of reason" is too narrow.