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

    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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    Key Terms

    Candidate counterexamples(as used in logic and argumentation)
    Specific cases or situations that seem to prove a theory wrong or show exceptions to a rule someone is trying to defend.
    Confirmatory(contrasts with what collective witness actually does)
    Serving to strengthen or verify that something is true; providing support for a claim.
    Copy Principle(Reid's critique of Hume's epistemology)
    Hume's principle that every idea is derived from (copied from) a prior sensory impression
    Methodologically question-begging(as used in logic and research methodology)
    A logical problem where your method of gathering evidence secretly assumes the answer you're trying to prove, which is unfair reasoning.
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