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Impenitent · Oct 9, 2003, 12:06 am

-Hume showed that reasoning from 'impression to idea' was essentially circular, based on custom rather than reason.

and in the circularity lies the error... but agreed, it is a habit...

-What his argument really meant was that reasoning from 'impression to idea' could not be deductively proved

no, his argument showed that there was no necessary connection between events...

-None of this argument says that induction is false.

Hume's argument claims that induction is an error in reasoning... it seems one wants to try to base a form of epistemology on an error... "newer" formulation of likelihood? I know this and such... er well I kinda have absolute certainity that .... well if the "cards" line up right, I "know" this but ... if Hume's skepticism were actually incorporated into the new inductive arguments there would be no new inductive arguments...

there is no way to know that the bread that nourished me yesterday will nourish me today... remember, there is no rational reason to eat...

the current failures of AI? do you understand how far we have come in a mere 50 years? how long did it take for humans to evolve or whatever? if AI is possible, it will be demonstrated soon... then again depending upon your definition of intelligence, it is already here...

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Impenitent Hot Lava Posts: 1,859	-Hume showed that reasoning from 'impression to idea' was essentially circular, based on custom rather than reason. and in the circularity lies the error... but agreed, it is a habit... -What his argument really meant was that reasoning from 'impression to idea' could not be deductively proved no, his argument showed that there was no necessary connection between events... -None of this argument says that induction is false. Hume's argument claims that induction is an error in reasoning... it seems one wants to try to base a form of epistemology on an error... "newer" formulation of likelihood? I know this and such... er well I kinda have absolute certainity that .... well if the "cards" line up right, I "know" this but ... if Hume's skepticism were actually incorporated into the new inductive arguments there would be no new inductive arguments... there is no way to know that the bread that nourished me yesterday will nourish me today... remember, there is no rational reason to eat... the current failures of AI? do you understand how far we have come in a mere 50 years? how long did it take for humans to evolve or whatever? if AI is possible, it will be demonstrated soon... then again depending upon your definition of intelligence, it is already here... "I really like this jacket, but the sleeves are much too long..." insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results...