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David Hume
Title: David Hume
Category: Arts & Humanities
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David Hume
David Hume
1. Hume says, “If we would satisfy ourselves, therefore, concerning the
nature of that evidence, which assures us to matters of fact, we must
enquire how we arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect.” Hume then
makes the claim that; “knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance,
attained by reasonings a priori.” The support for this claim is that
knowledge of cause and effect arises entirely from experience. If you
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…showed last 75 words of 932 total…I believe that it is merely a definition. He says that when we
repeatedly see any particular act or operation, we produce the belief that
the act or operation will repeat itself again because of the effect of
Custom. That does not help us any with the problem. It just defines why
we have the problem. I don't believe that Hume's solution takes us any
farther, but it does clarify the problem a little more.
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