Very funny, but to be fair, he would’ve given it a higher probability*, even if he might not have reinvented Laplace’s law of succession and been able to give the sun rising a 1/1826250 chance of not rising.
* Remember, the empiricism vs rationalism debate could be summed up as ‘is infinite certainty possible?’
David Hume is fence sitting 236 years ago.
Very funny, but to be fair, he would’ve given it a higher probability*, even if he might not have reinvented Laplace’s law of succession and been able to give the sun rising a 1/1826250 chance of not rising.
* Remember, the empiricism vs rationalism debate could be summed up as ‘is infinite certainty possible?’