Can Enumerative Induction Be Defended by Modal Scepticism and Modal Empiricism?

Dialogue 59 (2):345-361 (2020)
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RÉSUMÉDans l’esprit du scepticisme modal, Peter Hawke propose une épistémologie modale, la théorie de l’explication sûre, qui adopte la forme de l’empirisme modal. Avec la SET, il essaie de défendre l’induction énumérative : on croit raisonnablement que tout X est F sur la base d’un échantillon suffisamment grand dans lequel tout X est F. Dans cet article, je soutiens que l’argmentation de Hawke échoue. De plus, je signale un problème avec la SET, lequel cause cet échec : la SET est trop stricte pour expliquer certaines affirmations possibles que nous avons le droit de croire.

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