For Hume, causality is something humans naturally believe. The skeptical Hume argued that we cannot logically prove causation and "matters of fact," as we can know and prove "relations of ideas" internal to mathematics and logical systems of thought. But Hume the naturalist said that we can...
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But Hume offers a rich explanation of practical irrationality. To show that Hume's theory of practical reason is too individualistic, a problem in his account of theoretical reason must first be appreciated. Hume thinks that rational agents should only trust in testimony about matters of fact ...
the content: CHAPTERI F 0 U R Cause and Effect Text Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section IV Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations ofthe Understanding All the objects ofhuman reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, relations ofideas, and matters offact. ...
of the readings.SourceDavid Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)Part IAll the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit,Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of Geometry, Algebra,and Arithmetic;...
Hume's skepticism brings him to refuse to trust any norm with mathematical certainty that purports to regulate either nature or politics; both fields are domains of matters of fact, for which it is not possible to find rules that are alw... G Valpione 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 加载更多来源...
Hume's moral theory maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena, and is usually taken to have first clearly expounded the is–ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ought to be done. ...
towards the first failure of the work; but Hume, as before said, is invariably chary of his references, and one cannot doubt that he was himself fully alive to the fact that in his philosophic analysis the matters in debate in the theo-logical world bad been reduced to their purest essenc...
David Hume devoted a long section of his Treatise of Human Nature to an attempt to refute the indivisibility of space and time. In his later Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, he ridiculed the doctrine of infinitesimals and the paradox of the angle of contact between a circle and a tangent...
David Hume wrote in 1748 that “No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish” (Rational Wiki, 2018). Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply ...