1.
What is a priori knowledge?
a.
“…independently of experience, in the way you know the truths of
mathematics” (159).
b.
A priori knowledge is something that you definitively know, which is
independent from past experiences.
2.
What is the general problem of induction?
a.
“How can experience justify beliefs about things we have not seen? How
can our observations make it rational for us to form beliefs about the
unobserved?” (160).
b.
The general problem of induction is that you cannot tell whether it is
okay to make beliefs based off experience rather than observation.
3.
According to Hume, what is the problem with enumerative induction?
a.
“…the premise does not guarantee the truth of the conclusion” (161).
b.
The problem with enumerative induction is that there is no definitive
evidence that what is observed could be something else entirely.
4.
What is a non-demonstrative inference?
a.
“…deductively invalid but cogent nonetheless…” (163).
b.
A non-demonstrative inference would be like saying that all observable
pigs are pink, therefore pigs are pink (deductively invalid but cogent).
5.
What is the justificatory problem faced by IBE?
a.
“…what it means for one explanation to be ‘better’ than another, and
there is the justificatory problem of saying why it’s reasonable to believe
the best explanation” (165).
b.
The problem faced by IBE is that there is no reason to believe that an
explanation may be better than another, and how would it be reasonable
to believe that explanation?
6.
What is the staggering fact about our knowledge of the world?
a.
“You have existed for a brief time. Your experience has been confined to
a tiny corner of an unfathomably vast universe” (166).
b.
The staggering fact about knowledge in our world is that people may
think they know so much about the universe, but in reality we are limited
to how much we know.
