sumation of hume's inquiry sec

Section five part one of Hume’s An Inquiring Concerning Human Understanding is an opposition of the skeptical philosophy. Hume felt that philosophies that were designed to suspend all judgments or to doubt, such as Foundationalism, confined understanding to very narrow bounds and that these kinds of fences should not be put up; also that there is a principle or a step inside the mind that is not supported by understanding or by any argument. Hume states that this principle is custom or habit. He gives the example of a person with strong faculties of reason and reflect be brought into the world. This person could not have any reasoning of fact outside what he is being exposed to or what was immediately present to his senses. This person could not be able to realize the idea of a cause and effect conjunction between objects, to this person the correlation would seem arbitrary. This is why our a priori knowledge

Hume then begins talking about the three principles of association, Resemblance, Contiguity, and Causation. He talks about his experiment in looking at a picture or a friend and how seeing this picture produces a relation to him different to how we think of him when the picture is not looked at. That we think of the friend directly not of him as a reflection of the picture that was viewed. Hume also talks about objects have a great influence due to the correlation of the feelings or ideas behind them, like a cross would render to Christians the sacrifice Jesus made. Hume also mentions distance. For instance, on the way home, if one were near their home, say a mile or so away they would think differently about their home if they were, oh say one thousand miles away. Because as one passes through the neighborhood adjacent to theirs, and sees all the buildings, trees, and other things that relate to their home, these correlations make one think differently a

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