Things I need to write on

(Originally written October 16, 2006 in Book 8)

Class Notes: 10/16/06

Hume's Critique of Induction:

Two kinds of knowledge:
1. Relations of ideas
2. Matters of fact

Where does the concept of uniformity of nature lie? Where do the laws of nature fall: matter of fact or relations of ideas?

The uniformity of nature is that the future will resemble the past. Hume calls it a psychological habit.

Attempted Solutions to Hume's problems of induction:

1. Kantian approach - inductive inferences are grounded in a priori concepts.

2. Will's approach

Past futures resemble past pasts.
Therefore, Future futures will resemble past futures and past pasts.

3. Reichenbach's Pragmatic Solution
(if anything works, induction will)
example - Crystal Gazing

Things we cannot conclusively argue for:
-Causality
-General Reliability of sensory perception
-Uniformity of nature
-Laws of logic
-Other minds
-Thoughts reflect reality
-The existence of God
 - Spiegel

Things we cannot conclusively argue for:
-General reliability of sensory reception
-Laws of logic except for the identity Law
  -Linehan

"Things I need to Write On"
1. Causality exists in its own right. First Cause is God.
2. If First Cause is God, God Exists
3. Uniformity of nature: IF God exists and sustaining nature in uniform in that it is conforming to the will of God.
4. If God is, He is, thus, the Law of Identity is proved.
5. Other minds (same argument as point 3
6. Existence of God, slow development of the existence of god to God