David Hume’s account of causation in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is based on Empiricism; that is that all knowledge acquired in life ultimately originates from our experiences. Hume provides two reasons supporting this claim. He first states that “when we analyze our thoughts or ideas, however compounded or sublime, we always find that they resolve themselves into such simple ideas as were copied from a precedent feeling or sentiment.” (Hume,634) His second reason is supported by those with a defected organ. Hume points out, for instance, that a blind man is incapable of forming any notion of colors, just as it is impossible for a deaf man to form a notion of sounds. This supports the claim that we are incapable of gaining knowledge from any other source other than experience.

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