How Do We Derive A Value From A Fact?

A lesson from Hume’s Skepticism

Pamela Chng
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
3 min readApr 14, 2019

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David Hume, British Empiricist (7 May 1711–25 August 1776) — Source: Wikimedia Commons

Hume’s skepticism about induction challenges the empiricist view of the role of Reason in drawing conclusions from the method of induction. This is the method of reasoning where empirical conclusions are drawn from empirical premisses. In this way, one is warranted to conclude that the next raven he sees will be black because all the other ravens…

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