PHIL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Modus Ponens, Inductive Reasoning, Logical Form
10 May 2016
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Recall the first problem in le picture of science: Hume"s conclusion + (other claims) implications: conclusion: No prediction of the future can be rationally justified. Clarification: hume"s conclusion is about inductive patterns of reasoning (think: argument form). Implications of his conclusion are about conclusions of inductive patterns of reasoning (think: argument content). The structure that multiple claims together make: content: What a claim says: roses example (content. Therefore, violets are blue: even more precise example: If roses are red, then violets are blue. Form in hume: hume"s conclusion is about the form of some arguments or reasoning: Targeting inductive forms of argument contained in any sil: and about rules of argument form. Ex: rules of how strongly or weakly to inductively infer conclusions from observational premises. Content in hume: hume"s conclusion is not itself about argument content: Ex: conclusion by itself does not imply skepticism about specific statements that show up as conclusions of inductive arguments.
