Wednesday, April 16, 2008

HUME- Enquiry

Missing blue problem: Different shades of blue (Lightest ----> Darkest) if a shade of blue was missing you would be able to tell it was missing.

There is also the red coke can example. The red on every coke can is alway exactly a like. Shows we supplement color info.

This was a prob. for empiricism it is so singular- it doesnt really matter.. It is not part of any geometric pattern.

The of induction is a general conclusion from different instance.

In any kind of constant color pattern is changed we always will be able to tell there is something missing from it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

hmmm...would your really know it though? I don't believe you, me or anyone else would. Without knowing that there is a specif shade that is missing from the col0or scale of blue, you wouldn't think anything of it. YOu would just see that the blue shades continue to get darker down the line. How would you or I know that there was a shade missing if you did not know say, perhaps the total number of shades of blue, or there was no designated blank spot for the missing color?...

Codi said...

that is a good point.. i guess it depends on how many shades are missing and how big the gap of colors are between them. if there is only one or two missing i think that it would be hard to tell, but if there was a large gap like i said there would be room to tell.

Sharde03 said...

I agree with Gabrielle...you wouldnt know a color was missing...because how would you know that a different shade belongs there...we percieve shades different even color

Anonymous said...

I think that it is truely possible to see the difference whether it is slightly different or a huge gap. You would realize that part of the pattern was missing!