The Missing Shade of Blue - Suggested Solutions

Suggested Solutions

A fully adequate solution to the problem will have the following features. It will

  1. Recognise that Hume believed that the problem to be a genuine counter-example.
  2. Recognise that Hume included the example for a purpose.
  3. Provide an explanation that harmonizes well with other features of Hume’s epistemology.

The problem has been tackled in various ways:

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