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David Hume - College Paper

David Hume

Eric Tarr
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
presented an object to a man that he had never come in contact with, he
would not be able to give you the causes or the effects of this mysterious
object. You can not tell the causes or effects of a new object from the
qualities, which appear to the senses. ...

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object, such as its effect; mush less, show us
the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very
sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of
heat, and ice and cold, without being previously acquainted with the
operation of these qualities.” Therefore, cause and effect is learned
through experience.

2. The circular reasoning in Section IV, Part II, paragraph 6, is, “we have
said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of
cause and effect; that our knowledge of the relation is derived entirely
from experience; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the
supposition that the future will be conformable to the past.” If we are to
put trust in past experience and make it the standard of our future
judgement then the arguments to support the statement must be probable or
matter of fact and real existence. There is no such argument to support
the supposition. To attempt and prove the ...

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Added: 1/6/2008 03:51:44 PM
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