Improving on Hume’s Account of the Way We Generalise from Experience

In this chapter, I argue that the correct description of the way we generalise from experience has us inferring to the best explanation rather than, as Hume has it, inferring causally (inductively). This prepares the way to my argument, in the following chapters, in support of the claim that the two readings, Idealism and Materialism, impact scepticism about ampliative reasoning differentially.