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- According to Hume, the mind is capable of apprehending two kinds of proposition or truth: those expressing “relations of ideas” and those expressing “matters of fact.” The former can be intuited—i.e., seen directly—or deduced from other propositions.
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Mar 21, 2018 · A classic example of an analytic proposition is “Bachelors are unmarried men”, and a synthetic proposition is “My bike tyre is flat”. For Hume, demonstrative arguments, which are based on a priori reasoning, can establish only relations of ideas, or analytic propositions.
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This article tells the story of the problem (s) of induction, focusing on the conceptual connections and differences among the accounts offered by Hume and all the major philosophers that dealt with induction until Hans Reichenbach. Hence, after Hume, there is a discussion of what Kant thought Hume’s problem was.
Hume essentially follows Locke’s empiricism, but proposes a terminological improvement in distinguishing Lockean “Ideas” into the two categories of “ideas” (i.e. components of our thought) and “impressions” (i.e. sensations or feelings).4 He then expresses the empiricist claim in terms of our ideas being copies of our impressions – apparently s...
Jun 4, 2008 · Kant famously attempted to “answer” what he took to be Hume’s skeptical view of causality, most explicitly in the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783); and, because causality, for Kant, is a central example of a category or pure concept of the understanding, his relationship to Hume on this topic is central to his philosophy as a ...
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Hume devises a strategy to prove his skeptical conclusion. He asks us to imagine that we could prove the principle that the future will resemble the past. How would we construct such a proof?
Apr 4, 2002 · Hume's negative argument about probable reasoning is sometimes called the problem of induction. The modern version of that argument is centrally concerned with the warrant of probable reasoning and the justification of the beliefs that result from such reasoning.
Feb 18, 2021 · Peter Millican addresses the issue of how to best interpret Hume’s iconic passages on causation and causal powers and aims to cut through the various interpretations by fixing twelve ‘key points’ and arguing that a reductivist reading makes best sense of them.
