Questions tagged [hume]
David Hume is a 18th century philosopher and contemporary of Immanuel Kant. He is best known for his skeptics views, empirical analysis, and naturalist positions.
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Is the is-ought gap proposition an absolute, a priori truth, a contingent empirical hypothesis, or something else?
Coming from Hume and his associationism, it seems like it might be a contingent, empirical claim (I'm not sure how much of an empiricist G. E. Moore was, so I'm not sure how to juxtapose the is-ought ...
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Science as a counterexample to Hume's ideas on Causality and The Problem of Inference?
Hume seems to believe that inference, which is the derivation of a novel set of facts from a given one, must be based on causality, and that causality cannot be arrived at via propositions that fall ...
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How does perceptual experience give rise to belief in the continued existence of unperceived objects?
I’m writing a BA-level essay on the question:
“Do we infer the unperceived existence of what we perceive from the nature of our experience?”
Rather than take a strictly Humean or Kantian approach, I’m ...
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What is the solution to the "logical" problem of induction? [duplicate]
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/
Is induction justified? I might know people who reject induction consciously, and I consider them quite mad (and pernicious people).
Later on, ...
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How does the modern definition of analytic meaning differ from Hume's relation of ideas?
The following AI-generated passage states that Hume did not explicitly use the term analytic proposition as it is used today. My question is, "what's the difference between Hume's definition and ...
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Strange sentence in Hume - "The degree and direction of every motion ... is prescribed ..."
The degree and direction of every motion is, by the laws of nature, prescribed with such exactness that a living creature may as soon arise from the shock of two bodies as motion in any other degree ...
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Did David Hume distinguish between ideas and meanings of words?
Here a synthesis of Hume's thought on impressions and ideas first:
Hume declares that “all the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds,” which he labels impressions ...
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Does ethical intuitionism solve David Hume's Is-Ought problem?
Ethical intuitionism holds that foundationalism can be extended to moral knowledge, suggesting that moral truths can be known non-inferentially or intuitively. This view proposes that we possess a ...
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What is the difference between bundle theory and mereological nihilism?
Mereological nihilism is the thesis that composition never occurs; the apparent wholes of common sense are reducible to simples arranged "table-wise" or "cat-wise."
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Is ontological nihilism logically equivalent to bundle theory?
I think there is a paradigm in ontology based on predicate logic that the domain of discourse that the variables range over does not refer to conceptual entities. Rather, I think of the variables as “...
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Did Thomas Bayes truly develop Bayes' theorem in an effort to rebut David Hume's arguments against miracles?
Perhaps this is a question better suited for Skeptics.SE, but it has a significant overlap with philosophy nonetheless. The context is this article:
Bayes’ theorem began as a defense of Christianity
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Hume and mathematics
We have already observed that nature has established connexions among particular ideas, and that no sooner one idea occurs to our thoughts than it introduces its correlative, and carries our attention ...
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Hume's simplest ideas
I'm reading "Enquiry concerning human understanding", and it's not very clear for me if Hume was allowing that the ideas of objects could be reduced to the ideas of sensations.
I know that ...
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Hume's distinction between two types of reasoning
All reasonings may be divided into two kinds, namely, demonstrative reasoning, or that concerning relations of ideas, and moral reasoning, or that concerning matter of fact and existence.
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The difficulties with reading Hume
They [some special kind of philosophers] think it a reproach to all literature, that philosophy should not yet have fixed, beyond controversy, the foundation of morals, reasoning, and criticism; and ...
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