ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author going to argue that if the people understand the idea of rational justification in the way Hume did, then he was right that induction can’t be rationally justified. Both Descartes and Hume were foundationalists in the way they approached questions about knowledge and justification. In everyday life, it is a familiar occurrence that one person rationally justifies some proposition to another. The present point concerns the concept of evidence, not the concept of knowledge. The foundations must be perfectly solid; otherwise, the entire superstructure will be insecure. In everyday life, it is a familiar occurrence that one person rationally justifies some proposition to another. Antifoundationalists think that it is fundamentally misleading. Neurath held that perfectly solid foundations are impossible, but that doesn’t mean that their beliefs are completely unjustified.