He distinguished between two sorts of belief.
• Relations of ideas are beliefs grounded wholly on associations formed within the mind, they are capable of demonstration because they have no external referent.
• Matters of fact are beliefs that claim to report the nature of existing things; they are always contingent. Mathematical and logical knowledge relies upon relations of ideas such as It is not debatable but not informative, The interesting but doubtful propositions of natural science depend upon matters of fact. Abstract metaphysics mistakenly tries to achieve the certainty of the former with the content of the latter.
Part of Hume’s fame and importance attribute to his skeptical approach to a range of philosophical subjects. In epistemology, he questioned common concepts of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time. He ignored standard accounts of relationship between cause and effect. Also, he argued that our conceptions of cause-effect relations are background of habits of thinking, rather than in the perception of causal forces in the external world itself. He defended the skeptical position that human reason is intrinsic opposite, and it is only through naturally-instilled beliefs that we can navigate our way through common life
He distinguished between two sorts of belief.
• Relations of ideas are beliefs grounded wholly on associations formed within the mind, they are capable of demonstration because they have no external referent.
• Matters of fact are beliefs that claim to report the nature of existing things; they are always contingent. Mathematical and logical knowledge relies upon relations of ideas such as It is not debatable but not informative, The interesting but doubtful propositions of natural science depend upon matters of fact. Abstract metaphysics mistakenly tries to achieve the certainty of the former with the content of the latter.
Part of Hume’s fame and importance attribute to his skeptical approach to a range of philosophical subjects. In epistemology, he questioned common concepts of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time. He ignored standard accounts of relationship between cause and effect. Also, he argued that our conceptions of cause-effect relations are background of habits of thinking, rather than in the perception of causal forces in the external world itself. He defended the skeptical position that human reason is intrinsic opposite, and it is only through naturally-instilled beliefs that we can navigate our way through common life
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