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Hume's Probability Argument of I, iv, 1 Richard DeWitt Hume Studies, Volume 11, Number 2, November 1985, pp. 125-140 (Article) Published by Hume Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hms.2011.0582 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/389429/summary Access provided at 17 Feb 2020 18:33 GMT from JHU Libraries 125, HUME'S PROBABILITY ARGUMENT OF ?,??,? In the Treatise, ?,??,?, Hume presents an argument which, in the barest of outlines, goes as follows:' (Pl) Every proposition has a probability less than one. (P2) If reason were the basis of our beliefs, then we would have no beliefs. (follows from (Pl)) (P3) We in fact do have beliefs. Hence, (P4) Reason is not the basis of our beliefs. The argument has not been particularly well received. D. C. Stove, for example, refers to it as being "not merely defective, but one of the worst arguments ever to impose itself on a man of genius." While not everyone is as unsympathetic as Stove, it nonetheless is difficult to find commentators favorably disposed toward the argument. Various sections of the Treatise are notoriously unclear. ?,??,? is such a section; as such, it is difficult to say just what Hume intended his argument to be. My contention in the
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Published: Jan 26, 2011
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