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Hume - Section 4 Notes - College Essay

Hume - Section 4 Notes

4. Reasoning around matters of fact is based on the relationship between cause and effect. Cause and effect allows us to go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses.

Eg. Friend in France due to letter, watch on an island shows that people have been there before.

* It is supposed that there is a connection between the present fact and what is inferred from it.

* Reasoning of fact is based on cause and effect and this relation is either near or remote, direct or collateral.

5. We need to look at how we arrive at knowledge of cause and effect.

6. Knowledge of cause and effect is not a priori but based entirely on experience.

- Man is not able to discover the causes and ...

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9. Yet the laws of nature are only known through experience - the motion of a billiard ball or a stone or piece of metal falling when raised is only known after experience not a priori

10. All reasoning a priori can't provide a preferred result from an initial event eg. billiard balls may both come to rest, return in direction, or go in any direction

11. Every effect is a distinct event from its cause and the first invention or conception of it a priori is entirely arbitrary

12. This is why it is the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce principles of natural phenomena to a greater simplicity and to resolve the many particular effects into a few general causes by means of reasoning from analogy, experience and observation. The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy and meets us at every turn in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

13. Geometry can't remedy this defect or lead us into knowledge of ...

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