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Treatise Of Human Nature By David Hume

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Julio Morales Philosophy 001 Essay 3 Hume an inspirational philosopher of the 18th century, shows the way humans reason in the mind. Hume argued against the idea of priori being causal judgments because it is impossible to predict how objects react before having experienced them. If two event occur we assume there is a cause and effect, and there is an A and B that are always conjoined. Whenever we connect A and B people are certain that the conjunction will continue to happen. When people realize that A will bring out B is an assumption because of the constant conjunction, which makes us certain B will be followed up by A. According to Hume the mind can create ideas in two ways, through natural relations and through philosophical relations. The “Treatise of Human Nature” explains that Natural relations connects in a way where our imagination naturally follows one another.. The natural relations are contiguity, resemblance, and cause and effect. Cause and effect is the only thing that neglects all of the thoughts, memories, and sensations since we know the results. Which makes it the base of our knowledge in the world according to Hume. Cause and effect are important for reasoning because Hume explains it as the relationship between objects of comparison. When Hume explains objects he is explaining the thoughts in your mind such …show more content…

The impression of certainty becomes the intended result for almost every situation. If experience similar events of a certain constant conjunction, our minds naturally determines from cause to effect, which creates a defined assumption to the prediction of the effect every time. It grows certainty that the event will always occur when the same cause is applied. “The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, ic complete and entire” (Solomon,

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