- Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essay writer
- Philosophical: empiricism and skepticism
- Skepticism - no reason to be certain about anything
- Empiricism - knowledge comes from senses. Taste, hearing, touch, sight, smelling - these are impressions. impressions link to brain and form ideas (individual to a person)
- Impressions: emotions/sensations - the brain is full of impressions
- Ideas: faint images of our impressions
Hume questions beliefs - there is not certainty. We cannot be 100% certain that the sun will rise in the morning.
Cause and effect.
Causation - is where one thing will follow the other, A always follows B. Hume believes that nothing is certain so he disagrees with the causation. Just because something has happened before does not mean it will happen exactly the same again. Our mind connects A and B - there is no casual connection.
The first cause was God - to doubt the first cause means to doubt God - if there was no first cause nothing would exist (the whole universe). Therefore, God must exist. - Ontological Argument.
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