Hume
Whats imaginable is possible, you can
imagine a cause without its usual
effect.
ex. Superman "defies gravity. Therefor its
possible to have a cause without its
usual effect. Therefore, There is no
nessasary.
Valid Deductive arg.
All men are mortal, Socretes is a man,
Socretes is mortal.
anything less than deductive logical
100% certainity is more guesswork.
The problem of induction, if premises
are T. the conclusion must be T.
Strong Inductive arg.
If the premesis are true, the conclusion
is probably true.
Ex. Every time I hit my thumb with a
hammer hard, I felt pain. Therefore
everytime in the future I hit my hand with a
hammer, I feel pain.
All swans so far observed are white.
All swans are white.
Kant:
Sythesis between rationalism and
empiricism
Began as ratiolist, the Hume "awake him
from his dogmatic slumbers".
ANALYTIC STATEMENTS: the predicate is
contained in the subject
-Like Hume's relations of ideas.
ex. A bachelor is an unmarried male.
-unpacking the subject.
Triangle has 3 sides(trivial or empty
truths).If true neccasary truths.
John is a bachelor.
SYNTHETIC STATEMENTS:
-Like Hume's Matters of fact.
HUME:
Apriori:analtic(relationships of ideas)logic
definitions, math) synthetic (none)
Aposteriori:analytic(none)synthetic(matter
s of fact and exsistence, truths about the
world.
KANT:
Apriori:analytic(logic, definitions,NOT
math)
Synthetic(MATH)
Aposteriori: analytic(none)Synthetic(truths
about the world)