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- 1Hume's key beliefsEmpiricist. Humans, like animals, are governed by passions, instincts and habits. Pure reason cannot discover any matters of fact (need experience). To live according to pure reason will be self-defeating, only leading to impractical scepticism (no answers, no conviction).
- 2Impressions and IdeasHume separates perceptions into two categories: impressions (vivid perceptions that we receive in actual experience) and ideas (weak perceptions, formed in our imagination or from our memory).
- 3Hume's fundamental epistemological principleNo idea can possess any content beyond what has already been received in prior impressions.
- 4Relations of ideasThe following give us a natural propension to consider ourselves as a simple substance that retains an enduring identity...
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Causality - 5Hume on 'mind'Hume disagrees with Descartes' view that the mind is simple (it is one, indivisible, individual thing), because due to the changing nature of feelings, it is more complex. For Hume, the mind is a bundle of perceptions.
- 6LockeHume says we have a constant existence despite our memory sometimes failing us. Locke disagrees, stating that our present self must remember what our past self did in order to be considered identical to it.
- 7Minds v bodiesMinds and bodies are both bundles of perceptions, but they are bundled together in different ways.
- 8Hume's discovery of a contradiction in the Principle of ConnexionThe Principle of Connexion is: binds particular perceptions together to attribute to them simplicity and identity. But perceptions are supposedly distinct existences, and we can't discover connexions among perceptions by human understanding.
- 9Two ways of knowing things...Matters of fact and relations of ideas.
- 10Two kinds of inference...A priori demonstration and a posteriori experimental reasoning.
- 11Problem of InductionInductive methods require an appeal to induction in order to justify them.
- 12Hume's sceptical solutionConstant conjunction. Events always happen in a certain order, and thus we develop the habit of associating them in our minds.
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- MODERN PHILOSOPHY Flashcards on HUME, created by Lizzie Sykes on 19/05/2017.
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