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37. Michael Huemer - Understanding Knowledge

Ideas Having Sex

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Philosophical Problem of Induction and Proportional Syllogism

Discussion on the philosophical problem of induction through analysis of skepticism and proportional syllogism, providing examples like the gold box conjecture. Exploring how proportional syllogism justifies inductive inferences by starting with the assumption that most large samples are representative and then drawing conclusions about the general population.

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