Global skepticism is the view that we cannot know (have justified beliefs about) anything.Popular domains for local skepticism include:
Local skepticism is the view that we cannot know (have justified beliefs about) anything in a certain domain.
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Observed Cases |
Unobserved Case or Generalization |
I’ve observed numerous zebras and all have had stripes. Therefore, the next zebra I observe will have stripes.
The sun came up today.
The sun came up yesterday.
The sun came up the day before that.
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Therefore, the sun will come up tomorrow.
But we think that an inductive argument with true premises makes it very, very likely that the conclusion is true.
Hume advances a powerful skeptical argument against
induction. He thinks that we have no reason to believe that a good
inductive argument with true premises even makes the conclusion likely
to be true.