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    Challenges→There is no demonstrative argument for the uniformity principle (UP)

    A transcendentally incoherent negation cannot serve as Hume's criterion for the absence of a demonstrative argument, since that criterion presupposes empiricist constraints Kant rejects.

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    Key Terms

    Empiricist constraints(restrictions placed by empiricist philosophy)
    Limitations or rules that say we should only accept explanations based on what we can actually observe and measure, not hidden or invisible forces.
    Hume, David(as referenced for identifying the is-ought problem)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher famous for pointing out that you can't logically jump from describing how things are to claiming how they ought to be.
    Kant, Immanuel(as an example of a pre-statistical thinker)
    An 18th-century German philosopher who explored how the human mind shapes what we can know and how we understand reality.
    Transcendentally incoherent(describing a type of logical problem)
    Something that contradicts the basic conditions necessary for knowledge or experience to be possible at all, according to Kant's philosophy.

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    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    demonstrative argument(Contrasted with dialectical, rhetorical, and sophistic arguments in Avicenna's taxonomy)
    An argument in which certainty is transferred from premises to conclusion.
    negation(Standard truth conditions for logical negation, used as the basis for arguments against dialetheism)
    ¬A is true if and only if A is not true

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