This person could not have any reasoning of fact outside what he is being exposed to or what was immediately present to his senses. ... Hume goes on to state that there are some situations such as being able to feel love or fear or hatred cannot be prevented or produced by reasoning, but that they are natural instincts based upon correlations with experience or custom. In Part two of section five Hume talks about how fiction and belief differ. ... He states that belief is something felt by the mind, which distinguishes the ideas of judgment from the fictions of imaginations. ... Hume als...

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It is beliefs based on other beliefs, but on the bottom is a firm foundation of belief. ... If youre careful with your senses and reasoning, you can justify science. ... He is a skeptic about the existence of the external world, causation and inductive reasoning. ... By understanding the world through cause and effect you generate hypotheses (Hume p.269). ... However, in order to do this reasoning we are assuming that nature is uniform. ...

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Dream:" A brilliant piece of reasoning! ... Reflection is when we turn our mind on itself and receive ideas as thought, belief, doubt and will. 3. ... Finally, Hume provided a critique of skepticism in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Hume differentiates between two types of skepticism: antecedent and consequent skepticism. ... In conclusion, Hume believes that reasoning about facts is only supported by experience and there are no proofs of its existence and non-existence on a substance. ...

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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt Reality is the actuality of things, what is really happening, without interpretation. Perception is that interpretation of the experience. Let's say for example that the reality of things may be that you are i...

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Locke discussed the modes of the simple ideas of reflection such as remembering, reasoning and judging. ... Like Descartes, Locke trusts that God assures the reliability of his sensory beliefs. Locke's belief in the existence of God is argumentative. ... John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. ... Hume Defuse the threat to empiricism. ...

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