PHLA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Deductive Reasoning
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Chapter 15: jusiied belief and hume"s problem of inducion. S is having knowledge if s knows that p, then p must be true. S is having a jusiied belief if p doesn"t require to be true. Knowledge requires impossibility of error, but jusiied belief does not. You might say that your present experiences make the beliefs you have about the world outside your mind highly probable. Skepicism about knowledge doesn"t entail skepicism about raional belief. This is why it is possible to abandon the claim that we have knowledge without thereby giving up the idea that our beliefs are raional. Hume claimed that the beliefs we have about the future and the beliefs we have concerning generalizaion can"t be raionally jusiied. There is absolutely no raional jusiicaion for the beliefs we have that are predicions or generalizaions. He thinks it is merely a habit we have that we regard such premises as providing good reason to believe such conclusions.
