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Pyrrho on higher level inductions

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. January 2010
  • Post category:Logic
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I once thought of a bridge scenario. It went like this: There is a bridge. Someone, a man, wants to find out whether it will break down in the future.…

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Induction, deduction and the lack of justification

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. August 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
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It has been thought for many years (especially since Hume's first Enquiry1) that induction lacks a justification. This justification for induction, it has been thought for long, is necessarily if…

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Human rationality

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. August 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
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Induction and deduction are foundational to human rationality because it is impossible for a human to stop using them. Indeed what it means to be humanly rational is that one…

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