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Essay Galaxy - David Hume
David Hume
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. Hume writes, nor does any man
imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone,
could ever be discovered by arguments a priori....
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