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Sep 1, 2021 · Hume says that there are three main assumptions of science: that the present and future behave like the past, that we have impressions of causation, and that we can reason from...
Feb 26, 2001 · As a naturalist, he aims to account for the way our minds work in a manner that is consistent with a Newtonian picture of the world. Hume portrays his scientific study of human nature as a kind of mental geography or anatomy of the mind (EHU 1.13/13; T 2.1.12.2/326).
The realist Hume says that there is causation beyond constant conjunction, thereby attributing him a positive ontological commitment, whereas his own skeptical arguments against speculative metaphysics rejecting parity between ideas and objects should, at best, only imply agnosticism about the existence of robust causal powers. (It is for this ...
Jun 4, 2008 · 1. Kant’s “Answer to Hume” 2. Induction, Necessary Connection, and Laws of Nature. 3. Kant, Hume, and the Newtonian Science of Nature. 4. Time Determination, the Analogies of Experience, and the Unity of Nature. Bibliography. Primary Sources. Kant. Hume. Locke. Newton. Secondary Sources. Academic Tools. Other Internet Resources. Related Entries. 1.
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Hume, The Philosophy of Science and the Scientific Tradition. Matias Slavov. In Sager A., Coventry A. (eds), The Humean Mind, 388-402, Routledge. At his own time, Hume was known primarily as a historian and essayist. He was not known. as a natural philosopher or, to use our terminology, a natural scientist.1 Hume is usually not.
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Feb 26, 2001 · Hume suggests that his identification of the principles of association is the equivalent, for the science of human nature, of Newton's discovery of the Law of Gravitation for the physical world, and like the inverse square law, the associative principles are “original.”
All sciences, Hume continues, ultimately depend on "the science of man": knowledge of "the extent and force of human understanding,... the nature of the ideas we employ, and... the operations we perform in our reasonings" is needed to make real intellectual progress.
