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    Hume demonstrated that the inference from 'every event we... — Carmelics
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    Hume demonstrated that the inference from 'every event we have examined has a cause' to 'every event has a cause' is an illegitimate ampliative leap.

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    • 1.Finite observation can never logically entail universal claims; induction requires assuming nature's uniformity, which cannot itself be inductively justified.
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    • 2.Past regularities provide no logical guarantee about unobserved cases; we cannot derive necessity from contingent empirical patterns alone.
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    • 3.The leap assumes the unobserved future resembles the observed past, but this assumption itself needs justification independent of the induction being validated.
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    • 1.Hume's critique conflates logical validity with rational justification; we can rationally accept ampliative inferences without them being deductively valid.
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    • 2.Rejecting all induction as illegitimate leads to radical skepticism that undermines science, practical reasoning, and Hume's own empirical philosophy.
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    • 3.Causation may not require strict universality; acknowledging that causal principles hold contingently or probabilistically avoids the uniformity problem.
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