David Hume Constancy And Coherence Summary

As a means of fully understanding the argument brought forward by Hume’s, one must understand certain key words used. According to Merriam Webster dictionary online coherence can be defined as “logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated, having clarity or intelligibility, having the quality of holding together”; and constancy is “the quality of staying the same : lack of change, the quality of being loyal to a person or belief, steadfastness of mind under duress”. Constance and coherence are biological dispositions, wired into the very fabric of our mind. The mechanism of constancy and coherence, as described by Hume has been verified through experimental psychology. (Aubrey Townsend, n.d).
Another key term used by Hume, however, was

David Hume therefore conducted the study to internalize the different denouements that humans came up with. Hume’s proposed the question of how do we really know that the body exist? I myself contemplated on this question and is yet to give a definite answer. Personally, I concluded, that if I rule out my educational knowledge of biology and tenacity, and meditation on what my body is without the use of the senses. I am left believing that Hume was right in is theory that through causation we induce

Hume states “For the object of our senses continue to exist, even when they are not perceived, their existence be independent of and distinct from perception; and vice versa” (P. 176). Hume explains that it is “Human nature” to derive to the opinions that something is continued or is distinct in existence when we make distinctions especially through the use of our senses, reason or our imagination. Hume continued to state, “A single perception can never produce the idea of double existence, but by some inference either of the reason or imagination” (177). I believe what Hume was trying to say was that in order for us to perceive, we must first assume that there is no distinction between perceptions and perceiving. I think, however, that we can correlate perception, and as a result, we will always make association of resembling ideas and can attribute identity to their causes, which eventually puts our minds at rest. I feel that when human follow instinct of nature as powerful and blinding as it is, it causing us to never entertain any suspicion of images presented by the senses as the the external objects. Ideas are derived from our memory, and so makes up the fragments of our imagination concluding that if I were to agree with Hume am I saying that my memory is faulty. So the question is to be asked is that if our memory is flawed, does our ideas not based periodically on live