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On Hume: Belief In Matters Of Fact As Custom
In David Hume’s, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the conclusion is made that any belief, in the category he calls Matter of Facts, is based on custom and habit as opposed to reason; in the following paragraphs we will unfold how he comes to this conclusion.
Hume naturally divides all the objects of human reason and enquiry into two categories: Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact. ...
Hume further enquires into the foundations of all our reasoning concerning Matters of Fact; he asks what evidence we have that “assures us of any real existence and matters of fact, beyond the present testimony of our senses, or the records of our memory (Enquiry IVi). ...
Hume pushes this line of enquiry even further to ask, “What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience (Enquiry IVii)? ... These causes, Hume maintains, are totally shut up from human enquiry.
Since this is the case, Hume argues, there is no known connection between sensible qualities and the secret causal powers. ...
Hume supposed that causal reasoning can never be justified rationally since we must suppose that our past experiences bear some relevance to present and future cases. ...
In conclusion, we have seen the method that led Hume to conclude that any belief in a Matter of Fact is unjustified. The previous steps, that Hume follows, first break up all beliefs into two categories: Relations of Idea and Matters of Fact.
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