There are many arguments Locke mentions in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. ... Finally, Hume provided a critique of skepticism in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Hume differentiates between two types of skepticism: antecedent and consequent skepticism. ... Hume concludes about the senses that they deceive us entirely and that experience can not take us beyond the perception we call into doubt. 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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The Teleology argument holds us to believe that God's existence can be explained by simple human analogy. ... David Hume adequately states why this is the circumstance when he said, "From watching a hair grow, can we infer how people grow?" ... It is the insightfulness of human thought that helps bring an understanding of God to a personal level and giving an individual the means to understand a god in some of its elements. Yet, though human understanding is important it is not the whole or complete argument of the existence of God as the Teleology philosophy would conclude. ... The bel...

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