In Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume claims that animals are able to learn from experience, comparing them to humans and their capability to infer regularities from past experiences. Humes states that “it seems evident, that animals, as well as men learn many things from experience, and infer, that the same events will always follow from the same cause” (EHU 9.2; SBN 105). He brings up the example of horses who would never attempt to exceed their force and ability. Other examples include educating and discipling animals to act contrary to their natural instincts, such as calling a dog by his name. Essentially, Humes claims “that the animal infers some fact beyond what immediately strikes his senses; and that this