我将其中与第一类Relations of Ideas直接相关,甚至是直接相反,相对的都标黄了 休谟上来就直接阐明Matters of Fact与上面的第一类Relations of Ideas的第一个特点 (certain/certainty与evident/evidence) 恰恰相反,他们 arenotascertainedin the same manner;noris ourevidenceof their truth, however great, of a like...
Whereas in the more familiar discussion in the Enquiry, Hume divides the epistemological terrain into two domains: 'relations of ideas', in which either intuitive or demonstrative knowledge is attainable; and 'matters of fact', in which it is not (often termed 'Hume's Fork'), the present ...
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 have a natural belief in causation and in many matters of fact. Kant would later argue that such things were knowable as"synthetic" a ...
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...
As an illustrationof such an approach, we investigate how uncomputable the predictions of a hypothesis canbe if the hypothesis is to be reliably investigated by a computable scientific method.1. RELATIONS OF IDEAS AND MATTERS OF FACTFollowing an......
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;...
of fact; possible response to this negative analysis——his response can be that custom or habit, as principles of human life experience, are not under the requirement of causality.I Negative Response in CausationIn section II, Hume refers to the definition of ideas (thoughts), where he ...
Because desires and volitions are not capable of "an agreement or disagreement either to the real relations of ideas, or to real existence and matter of fact" it is "impossible ... they can be pronounced either true or false" (T 458). Their general functional role is that of "propense...
Hume frequently uses the term "understanding" to refer to causal reasoning, though in this sentence he seems to be using the term in 79 the more inclusive sense that would include demonstration and relations of ideas as well. But I know of no instances in which "understanding" is restricted...