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Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Second Edition. Edited by Eric Steinberg. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993. ISBN: 0-87220-229-1.   

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QUESTION 4 "Should it be said, that, from a number of uniform experiments, we infer a connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; this, I must confess, seems the same difficult, couched in different terms. The question still recurs, on what process of argument this inference is founded?” (p. 23) a. What is Hume talking about in your own words) when he talks about the connection between sensible things and secret powers? b. On what does Hume think that that connection is founded? (p. 28-29) c. What are the implications that follow for human knowledge? (That is, if Hume is correct, including about how the human mind makes the connection between sensible qualities and powers, what does mean for the things that we know, or think we know?) QUESTION 3 Hume makes the following claim: “For the effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently can never be discovered in it.” (p. 18) Describe what Hume means, in your own words AND with your own example. QUESTION 5 a. Hume describes the difference between ideas that we think are true and ideas that we can imagine but think are false as consisting in what? (p. 27) b. For ideas that we think are true, but have not experienced (or in some cases, cannot experience) with our senses, what effect does sensory experience have on our faith in the truth of our ideas?
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Should it be said, that, from a number of uniform experiments, we infer a connection
between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; this, I must confess seems the same
difficult, couched in different terms. The question still recurs, on what process of
argument this inference is founded.
a. What is Hume talking about( in your own words) when he talks about the
connection between sensible things and secret powers?
Hume views sensible things as activities that happen in the world independently of minds.
Sensible things and secret powers work hand in hand because it leads to one thing
succeeding and resembles instances that manage to follow antecedents. In this case,
Hume beliefs in causal power and the emergence of natural necessity. In many instances,
Hume indicates that secret power is a dialogue concerning natural things (Hume, p. 23).
Religion is seen as for those who are able to believe that things are able to happen by
chance or by its natural cause.
b. On what does Hume think that that connection is founded?
Hume ar...


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