"In our daily lives and in the sciences, we infer certain qualities and effects based on our past experience of similar objects and causes. Hume argued that inductive inferences of this kind cannot be justified by reason. The underlying assumption about the uniformity of nature, that the future will resemble the past and that like … Continue reading The Problem of Induction
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Perception & Reality
"'We read the world wrong and say it deceives us,' wrote Rabindranath Tagore. We take for permanent that which is ephemeral and for happiness that which is but a source of suffering: the desire for wealth, for power, for fame, and for nagging pleasures...By knowledge we mean not mastery of masses of information and learning … Continue reading Perception & Reality
