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    The demand that the principle of the uniformity of nature be verified is nonsensical

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    • 1.Verification requires a standard external to the claim being tested, but the uniformity of nature is presupposed by every empirical testing procedure itself.
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    • 2.Any attempt to verify uniformity of nature would circularly employ the very regularities whose universality is in question, rendering the demand self-undermining.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no finite set of observations can logically compel a universal pattern, making verification of uniformity in principle impossible.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that causal necessity and natural uniformity are conditions of possible experience, not objects discoverable within experience.
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    • 2.What functions as a transcendental condition for the possibility of empirical inquiry cannot itself be subject to empirical confirmation without a category error.
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    • 3.Demanding empirical verification of the preconditions for empirical inquiry conflates the logical order of justification with the temporal order of inquiry.
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    • 1.The principle of the uniformity of nature is an absolute presupposition, not a proposition
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    • 2.The notion of verifiability applies only to propositions, not to absolute presuppositions
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    • 3.Absolute presuppositions do their work in so far as they are presupposed, not in so far as they are true or believed to be true
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    Collingwood’s account of absolute presuppositions generates an interesting angle on the question of scepticism concerning induction. Hume had argued that inductive inferences rely on the principle of the uniformity of nature. If it is true that the future resembles the past, then inferences such as “the sun will rise tomorrow” are inductively justified. However, since the principle is neither a proposition about matters of fact nor one about relations of ideas the proposition “nature is uniform”
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