Aiden's Philosophical Journey

My son has had quite a first year and a half as he has made leaps in his philosophical reasoning. He began his life as a sort of Berkelean solipsist. Berkeley held that material objects cannot exist apart from their being percieved and a solipsist is one who believes that he is the only one who exists. Ergo, when mom and dad left the room, according to Aiden, mom and dad no longer existed and he was left in the world all alone. After all, we weren't in the room with him to be perceived, it must follow then, that mom and dad are not. This mix of beliefs lead Aiden to cry as we left the room. Fortunately, however, he has grown out of this and moved on to bigger and better things. He now grants that we exist when he doesn't percieve us, and evidences this by crying when we leave the room. What he now maintains is a Humean scepticism about induction. Hume argued that we were not justified in deriving conclusions about the future from premises about the past. Hence, we cannot conclude that the sun will rise tomorrow on the basis that it has risen every day in the past. Aiden is fully on board with this argument. No matter how many times we return to the same room as Aiden, he still refuses to conclude from this past tendency to return that we will return in the future. Thus, he continues to cry when we leave the room. Funny how the same conclusion and result are reached with very different premises.