Logical and Spiritual REFLECTIONS

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Book 1

Hume’s Problems with Induction

This logical reflection replaces the so-called problem of induction with a principle of induction. David Hume’s errors of observation and reasoning, with regard to induction, causation, necessity, the self and freewill, are pointed out and critically analyzed in detail –and more accurate and logical theories are proposed. This work also includes refutations of Hempel’s and Goodman’s alleged paradoxes of induction.

Chapters:

1. Hume’s “problem of induction”

2. The principle of induction

3. Causation, necessity and connection

4. The psychology of induction

5. The self or soul

6. Freewill

7. The is-ought dichotomy

8. Hempel's paradox of confirmation

9. Goodman’s paradox of prediction

10. The induction of induction

11. Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy

12. Some further remarks on causal logic  

See also, on Hume: Phenomenology, chapter II (section 5) and Ruminations, part I, chapter 8 (sections 4-7).

See also mentions in : Future Logic, chapters 65 and 67. Phenomenology, ch. I, V, VI and VII. Judaic Logic, ch. 2. Buddhist Illogic, ch. 7. The Logic of Causation, ch. 3, 10, 16 and app. 1. Volition and Allied Causal Concepts, ch. 2. Ruminations, part I, ch. 9, and part II, ch. 1, 6, 7. Meditations, ch. 32.