Ep. 57: Hume Was Wrong
Young Heretics
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The Intuition of Causation
We have this natural inclination to assume that things are going to behave in a rational and logical way. If you perform the action of dropping a book once, and then you do the same exact thing with nothing else different, right? Then the book will drop again. This is the very basis of the scientific method. We have this sort of intuition that that works. And not only that it works in this particular case, but that if you can see the rules that are at play, then you can basically extrapolate them out. So he's he's attacking here the very foundations of how we reason about science, right? He's saying, where do, where o we get this idea?
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