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    Inductive inference is not drawn through a chain of ideas... — Carmelics
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    Inductive inference is not drawn through a chain of ideas connected by mediating links characteristic of the faculty of reason

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    • 1.The faculty of reason operates by connecting ideas through mediating links
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    • 2.Hume's argument reveals that inductive inference does not operate through such a chain
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    • 1.Kant argues that inductive inference presupposes a priori synthetic principles (e.g., causality) that are products of pure reason, not habit.
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    • 2.If the uniformity of nature is a transcendental condition of experience, then reason supplies the mediating link Hume claims is absent.
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    • 1.Peirce's abductive logic shows inference to the best explanation involves reason-governed rule selection, not mere associative custom.
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    • 2.If induction is reconstructible as a form of ampliative reasoning with normative inferential rules, it falls within the scope of reason's chain-linking function.
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    There are also those who dispute the consequences of the dilemma. For example, some scholars have denied that Hume should be read as invoking a premise such premise P8 at all. The reason, they claim, is that he was not aiming for an explicitly normative conclusion about justification such as C5. Hume certainly is seeking a “chain of reasoning” from the premises of the inductive inference to the conclusion, and he thinks that an argument for the UP is necessary to complete the chain. However,
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