David Hume Trust Your Senses Chapter 16 David Hume Trust Your Senses

Search for Simplicity Hume represents a very British attitude toward philosophical investigation Locke argues that there is nothing in the mind that was not previously in the senses The senses are the only means we have of knowing anything © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

A Science Of The Understanding Parts of David Hume’s inspiration in conducting his inquiry into the: Operation of human understanding were Isaac Newton’s remarkable advances in: Physics in the seventeenth century © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

A Science Of The Understanding Hume aspired to do something similar for human sensory and cognitive faculties in: That he wanted to provide simple and comprehensive principles that would explain: The source and nature of all human knowledge © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

David Hume: Of the Origin of Ideas We may divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species: Which are distinguished by their different degrees of force and vivacity The less forcible and lively are commonly denominated Thoughts or Ideas © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Relations Of Ideas And Matters Of Fact Hume calls judgments “objects of reason” Relations of ideas is the term that Hume uses for: All judgments that are known with certainty Judgments expressing matters of fact are contingent; neither their truth: Nor their falsity is contradictory © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Cause And Effect Cause and effect is the link that ties our direct experience of the world to: Claims about matters of fact that are not directly observed What is our rational justification for asserting the causal relations we assert? © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

John Locke on Knowledge All ideas come from sensation or reflection The objects of sensation is one source of ideas The operations of our minds the other source of them © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Problem Of Induction The difficulty of providing a rational justification for inductive inferences The basic principle operative in human understanding cannot be: Rationally demonstrated to be true © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Hume: Skeptical Doubts Concerning Operations of the Understanding Hume formulates—in his characteristically elegant prose—the problem of induction Explains his reasons for concluding there is no rational justification for inductive inferences Our inductive practices are grounded in the non-rational principles of custom or habit © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.