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    Hume's inductive justification for the Copy Principle is exceedingly weak

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    • 1.Rationalist philosophers including Descartes and Leibniz documented innate ideas and a priori concepts that resist reduction to sensory impressions, constituting independent counterevidence.
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    • 2.An inductive generalization is only as strong as its scope of surveyed cases, and Hume's self-report systematically excludes the rationalist tradition's prima facie evidence against the principle.
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    • 3.Ignoring a well-documented class of candidate counterexamples renders the inductive base of the Copy Principle methodologically question-begging rather than genuinely confirmatory.
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    • 1.Hume himself acknowledges the missing shade of blue as a counterexample, revealing that the Copy Principle admits exceptions he cannot explain away.
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    • 2.A principle that its own author concedes has empirical counterexamples cannot be sustained by inductive generalization from personal observation alone.
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    • 1.Hume's justification for the Copy Principle consists of challenging readers to find an idea not derived from sensory impressions after observing that his own ideas appear to be copied from sensory impressions
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    • 2.A personal inductive challenge of this form is an exceedingly weak basis for a general principle
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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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