I raise the following objections to Lee’s coherentist justification of induction. Coherentism is not an adequate theory of epistemic justification. It is circular for Lee to use inductions to justify the uniformity principle. It is one thing for the uniformity principle to be justified in the coherentist sense; it is quite another for the uniformity principle to be likely to be true. It begs the question against Hume for Lee to take the uniformity principle to be a default belief. Like Hume’s argument against inductions, Lee’s coherentist justification of induction confounds a means and an end.

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Can Coherentism Solve the Problem of Induction?

  • Seungbae Park

摘要

I raise the following objections to Lee’s coherentist justification of induction. Coherentism is not an adequate theory of epistemic justification. It is circular for Lee to use inductions to justify the uniformity principle. It is one thing for the uniformity principle to be justified in the coherentist sense; it is quite another for the uniformity principle to be likely to be true. It begs the question against Hume for Lee to take the uniformity principle to be a default belief. Like Hume’s argument against inductions, Lee’s coherentist justification of induction confounds a means and an end.