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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

“Necessity Is Something in the Mind, Not in Objects”

Hume believed that the common nonion of cause and effect is wrong. This conviction on his set out stemmed directly from the assumptions he made earlier on when creating his philosophic system. He divided human perception into two impressions were supposed to be instant, strong feelings or perceptions, whereas ideas ar those that have already faded away, leaving us with only when a partial knowledge of what we felt.Ideas have their stemma in impressions therefore if there exists a rational idea of necessity, it has to seminal fluid from an earlier impression. Yet no impression coming from our external environment fecal matter give us any idea about necessity. Nor can we find it in ourselves, because even if we see our body move a hand, how can we be trustworthy it is us who moves it? As it inevitably turns out, fit to Hume, because we have no experience of necessity, it is our mind that creates these connections we are so sure about.It is our habit to look for cause and ef fect, because thats the way to easily explicate how world functions to ourselves. We are assuming that certain causes will create qualified effects as in the past not because we can try out it, but because it has been this way before. A good example of this is how we expect the lie to rise every morning using the mathematical method of abstraction we assume that what has been true in the past, will be true in the future as well.Of course, something might stop the Sun from rising in the morning, so the right thing would be to say that it is highly verisimilar that it will rise, but there is no certainty. We skip all of this, because its more convenient, and it lies in human nature to take advantage of it. Of course, Hume does not say, that causality/necessity doesnt in fact exist, he only points to the fact that we are unable to derive its existence from hard facts and are instead using a very defective method of reasoning.

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