Hume's Sun Question
An epistemology song that walks through Hume's induction problem ("the sun came up yesterday, does that mean it'll rise tomorrow?") and Descartes' "I think therefore I am", landing the punchline that asking "how do you know?" makes you a philosopher.
Epistemology, what a word! The biggest word you've ever heard! It asks one question, just one thing, What is knowledge? Let it ring!
How do we know what we think we know? Did someone teach us? Did we watch it grow? Our eyes, our ears, our hands, our nose, Are they telling truth? Well, nobody knows!
A man named Hume sat down one day, And said "the sun came up today, And yesterday, and years before, But can we KNOW it'll rise once more?"
Just because it always did, Doesn't mean it will, poor kid! That's induction, tricky stuff, Knowing once is not enough!
Then Descartes sat and had a think, He doubted everything, to the brink! The floor, the sky, his hands, his chair, Was ANYTHING really there?
But then he thought, "I'm thinking now! I must be real, I don't know how!" I think, therefore I AM, he said, The one true thing inside his head!
So epistemology is the game, Of asking questions, never tame, How do you know? How can you tell? Now YOU'RE a philosopher as well!