An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Hume, D. (1748). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

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Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1748

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9662

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earth_sciences, economics_finance, philosophy

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• Black Swan (High-Impact, Low-Probability Events)
  • The term "black swan" in its modern sense was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness (2001) and especially The Black Swan (2007), drawing on the philosophical usage of "black swan" as an example of the problem of induction (Hume via Popper and others

    This sourceThe black swan is the classic counterexample to universal induction (no number of observed white swans establishes 'all swans are white'); Popper builds falsificationism on it. Cited inline (tier B) in Broad Use; verified and linked.

• Causality
  • Causality is.
• Uniformitarianism
  • The structure is: (a) observe some present process, measure its rate or mechanism; (b) assume the same process operated in the past at (methodologically) the same mechanism; © infer past states that would have produced the observed present record under that assumption — a structure that exemplifies the inductive inference Hume (1748) identified as foundational to (and unprovable by) empirical reasoning.

    This sourceFoundational for the philosophical status of uniformitarianism as an inductive (and therefore non-demonstrable) assumption.

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