Hume, David (1711 1776) Hume was the main philosopher to start a controversy regarding the validity of the origination of all general scientific knowledge. ... Hume argues that causation is only based on belief originating from human intuition or induction, having no logical reasoning or certainty backing the theory. Another inductive weakness Hume talks about is the fact that it is not at all possible to prove human moral beliefs. ... There is one type of inductive reasoning that is flawlessly correct and never wrong; this is known as Aristotle'ssyllogism?. ... For this reason, th...

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