Philosophy / Unit 3 Philosophy 0111 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hume's Critique of Design
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The idea
Hume's critique: the universe-to-artifact analogy is weak—we have seen watches made, never universes—and order alone does not certify a designer.
In practice
In the Dialogues, Philo piles up rivals: many designers, an apprentice god, a universe more like a plant than a machine.
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