Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Hume's inductive justification for the Copy Principle is exceedingly weak

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 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
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.A personal inductive challenge of this form is an exceedingly weak basis for a general principle
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    2 perspectives
    Reason against 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Rationalist philosophers including Descartes and Leibniz documented innate ideas and a priori concepts that resist reduction to sensory impressions, constituting independent counterevidence.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 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.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Ignoring a well-documented class of candidate counterexamples renders the inductive base of the Copy Principle methodologically question-begging rather than genuinely confirmatory.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason against 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Hume himself acknowledges the missing shade of blue as a counterexample, revealing that the Copy Principle admits exceptions he cannot explain away.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.A principle that its own author concedes has empirical counterexamples cannot be sustained by inductive generalization from personal observation alone.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.