David Hume: David Hume was an 18th-century intellectual who is best regarded for his philosophical ideas. His most famous works areA Treatise of Human NatureandAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Answer and Explanation: David Hume believes that causality cannot have rational proof. He argues ...
HumeMeaningLanguageCausationPowerHow can Hume account for the meaning of causal claims? The causal realist, I argue, is, on Hume's view, saying something nonsensical. I argue that both realist and agnostic interpretations of Hume are inconsistent with his view of language and intentionality. But...
In what sense is sociology an 'empirical' discipline? What are the views of Locke and Hume on the human understanding, including the sources of knowledge, how the understanding functions, and limits of knowledge. What are the differences in their perspec What l...
causation is symmetric: if X and Y are correlated, so are Y and X. Temporal precedence removes this problem. But temporal precedence, aligned with correlation, still isn’t enough for causation.
Footnote 5 This view, which has traditionally been traced back to Hume’s discussion of is-statements and ought-statements,Footnote 6 has become mainstream within logical positivism,Footnote 7 wherein the thesis has served the dual purpose of (i) demarcating the normative sciences from the ...
At least since Hume's analysis of causation, it has generally been accepted in philosophy that causes are distinct from their effects. While it is possible, indeed common, for someone to be both the immediate progenitor and the primary caregiver of a child, a set of symptoms cannot be its ...
Antony Flew My question is this: "Why and how was it that Hume failed to find a kind ofimpression from which to legitimate the complementary ideas of physical necessity and physical impossibility?" We can best begin from his first published discussion of causation. 1. In Treatise 1.3.2, ...
Here we have David Hume's view that reason alone can not cause us to act, but that emotions and feelings are the fundamental driving force to action. The hypothesis here to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not immediately induced by...
Causation,ExtrinsicRelations,andHume'sSecondThoughtsaboutPersonalIdentity In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: Footnotes 1. I do not attempt to review the extensive literature on this topic. For pieces that dis... Louis,E.,Loeb - 《Hume Studies》 被引量: 0发表: 1992年...
Another characteristic trait of much positivism is its denial of the classical conception of causation, according to which a cause with necessity brings forth an effect. To think in terms of such a natural necessity was considered metaphysical speculations and as such being nonsense in the strongest...