1. David Hume Trust Your Senses
Chapter 16
David Hume
Trust Your Senses

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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?
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. 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
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