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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism
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The 'Tractatus' is instrumentalist about laws of nature [Wittgenstein, by Armstrong]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction
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Induction accepts the simplest law that fits our experiences [Wittgenstein]
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We assume similar secret powers behind similar experiences, such as the nourishment of bread [Hume]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction
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Induction can't prove that the future will be like the past, since induction assumes this [Hume]
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If we infer causes from repetition, this explains why we infer from a thousand objects what we couldn't infer from one [Hume]
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Reason cannot show why reliable past experience should extend to future times and remote places [Hume]
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Fools, children and animals all learn from experience [Hume]
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All inferences from experience are effects of custom, not reasoning [Hume]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 4. Reason in Induction
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Premises can support an argument without entailing it [Pollock/Cruz on Hume]
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Hume just shows induction isn't deduction [Williams,M on Hume]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations
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The modern worldview is based on the illusion that laws explain nature [Wittgenstein]
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