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    Hume's Copy Principle is not 'certain' as Hume claims — Carmelics
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    Hume's Copy Principle is not 'certain' as Hume claims

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    • 1.Reid documents counterexamples where simple impressions of touch and temperature resist accurate ideational copying, violating universality.
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    • 2.A universal claim fails certainty if a single well-documented counterinstance exists, as Leibniz's criterion of necessary truth requires no exceptions.
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    • 3.Hume's own analysis of the missing shade of blue acknowledges the Copy Principle admits exceptions, which he never adequately reconciles with its claimed certainty.
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    • 1.Hume's own skepticism about induction undermines any inductive basis for certainty, creating a self-defeating epistemological position.
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    • 2.A principle cannot be 'certain' if its justification relies on the very type of reasoning Hume identifies as incapable of yielding necessity.
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    • 1.Hume's argument for the Copy Principle is inductive in form
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    • 2.An inductive argument cannot establish certainty
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    Reid's Sensory Deprivation Argument proceeds as follows. First, Hume's stated justification for the Copy Principle is inductive: he challenges people to find an idea that is not derived from a sensory impression, after he says that it appears all his ideas are copied from sensory impressions. But that, says Reid, is an exceedingly weak justification (EAP 1.4, 23). Besides, Hume's claim that the principle is “certain” is mistaken because the argument he sets out for the principle is inductive (IH
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