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other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...
influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...
a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...
a core belief of Christianity that one can find on any Christian Church Web site, regardless of whether that organization is a mai...
In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...
Inquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals Hume appears to attack the rigorism model of moral judgment in that he believes that ...
that the repetition of events in no way created "cause" and that there is not existing interdependence on actions that could be de...
In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...
In three pages this report discusses the utilitarian philosophy of David Hume in a consideration of the role of sympathy in 'Why U...
nature and follow it. It will not be discovered in a rational, intellectualized society. Hume The foundation of Humes think...
be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...
In five pages the argument that Scottish philosopher David Hume was a racist is considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliog...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
contends that Humes definition of "cause" (using reason to infer existence), as "a bastard of the imagination, impregnated by expe...