An investigation into cause and effect in Hume
$3.95
4 word format
document in English
humanities/philosophy
book review
published 10/07/2008
review : Completed
level : General public
requested 1 times
SummaryMy roommate has asserted that every time she breathes pepper, she sneezes. Her past experience of breathing pepper and sneezing has always reflected her future experience of breathing pepper and sneezing. She claims that if she amasses a sufficient number of similar cases where the future has always resembled the past, she has rational support for saying that the future does, in fact, resemble the past. Using Hume’s Enquiry, I plan to argue from his point of view against my roommate’s claim. I will first discuss the difference between relations of ideas and matters of fact, then arguing how her assertion of the cause and effect relationship between pepper and sneezing is matter of fact reasoning, something which the human mind is never justified in performing. I will conclude by discussing how habit and emotion lead me to ultimately not blame her and the rest of humankind for wanting to draw a connection between cause and effect, between the future and the past, between the pepper and sneezing.
Table of Contents
- There are two kinds of propositions for Hume.
- Cause and effect reasoning according to Hume.
- My roommate and the rest of humankind.
- My roommate believes that there is a connection between the pepper and sneezing.
- My roommate tries to show that the future resembles the past.
Most downloaded documents over 30 days in humanities/philosophy Latest in the category humanities/philosophy From the same author
knowledge network