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. ... However, in order to do this reasoning we are assuming that nature is uniform. ...
"Matters of fact," on the other hand, are learned a posteriori and all "reasoning concerning matters of fact seem to be founded on the relation of "cause and effect" (Hume 16). ... In an attempt to further defend his claim that foundation of our conclusions from experience are not founded on reasoning or any process of understanding, Hume divides all reasoning into two categories: demonstrative (concerning relations of ideas) and moral reasoning (concerning matters of fact and existence). ... Our mind is capable of perceiving this drastic proposal, and there is no way we can use reas...
Rationalists believed that an important group of foundational concepts are known through reason, as opposed to Empiricists who believed they are known through experiences like sense perceptions and emotions. Rationalists believed in truths through our innate ideas. Empiricists used deductive reasoni...
