Hume Probability

( thought there be no such thing as a chance in the world , our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding, and begest a like species of belief or opinion pg 37) What i think hume is talking about is that there are always chances that something will turn into something else. We always have probabilities and if a human understand them then it will be easier to undertand the human beliefs.

Hume (Senses)

Hume believes that Senses that immediately turns the though to another person. He puts them to the present with the same qualities and relations of which he formerly possess. Senses are very different feelings and have much greater influence of every kind either to give plesure or pain, joy or sorrow. Do you believe with Hume thought of senses?

Hume Doubt

( Why no philosopher who is rational and modest has ever pretended to assign the ultimate cause of any natural operation or to show distinctly the action of power which produces any single effect in the universe pg 19) Hume in this part he is doubting the philosopher understandings.

Hume part 2 Cause and Effect

(A person/philosopher who is brought up with strongest traits of reasoning , that person would be succesful on understanding but beside that he wont be able to reach other conclusions or use the idea of cause and Effect pg 27 )Hume believes that a greter philosopher will always reach a certain level but than it willl not go any farther , for example he would not understand the fact of cause and effect.

Hume!

"A Philosopher may live a remote from business, the genius of philosophy , if carefully cultivated by several most gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society and bestow a similar corretness on every art and calling" What Hume means is that no matter what a philosopher will always live through his writtings and it will alwasy inmcrease with a lot wisdom. Than he talk about politicians, lawyers, and government that all them will be put together with philosophy.

The Special Doubts concerning The operation of the Understanding

What Hume is trying to say in understanign the doubts would be Matter. Matters of fact are seen as objects of human reasoning. The evidence of truth is greater. The facts of matter is still possible it can never be contradicted and and bring or mind with easy and distinctiness thoughts!! Do you believe that evidence of truth could be greater?

miracles

MIRACLES i believe do not exist and the thing that happens is that evolution make a stand. for example birds just we see a bird that cant fly doesnt mean that they never could. it was just that evolution made that bird more suitable for its environment. so miracles dont really exist.

violation of natural law 2

but then again the cause and effect factor might be compromised as well because since we see trees growing upward we expect all of them to do the same, but yet if the tree structure is deformed then we cant say that all trees grow upwards.

violation of natural law

I think that there can be violation of natural laws. for example miracle i believe are example of this type of violation. lets just say trees always grow upward well there might be per say a specific time or day in which a tree might just have its structure deformed and start growing in the opposite directions.

Hume

Cause and effect

i think that if something is produce and then reproduced that we can expect that the outcome will be the same as the one before. however Hume mentions that we can expect that. but if we throw a ball at a window once and then again it will break once and again. the outcome will be the same with the only exception that the way the window will shatter would be different.

Hume's Probability

he belief that there is no such thing as Chance in this world, but he do belief in probability.

He said, "if a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter"

Hume's idea on Miracles

Hume simply don't believe in miracles. he think that miracle is due to laws of nature and simply is experience and it can't never be proved!

He said that, "It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony: and it is the same experience, which assures us of the laws of nature.........no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion."

Hume's orgin of ideas!

Hume think that our memory have a way of fading ideas that is once there. We can't never recall the same ideas back from the orginal state.

" every one will readily allow, that there is a considerable difference between the perceptions of the mind, when a man feels the pain of excessive heat, or the pleasure of moderate warmth, and when he afterwards recalls to his memory this sensation, or anticipates it by his imagination. These faculties may mimic or copy the perceptions of senses;but they never can entirely reach the force and vivacity of the original sentiment."

and i agree with what he is saying. When you touch something that is really hot at that moment, it's really painful, but once one hour pass, when you try to recall the pain, it's really hard to recall the same pain.

Hume's pool example!

Hume think that cause and effect is based on our own experience. He used the pool example to prove his thought.

He said," We fancy, that were we brought, on a sudden, into this worl, we could at first have inferred, that one Billiard-ball would communicate motion to another upon impulse, and tht we needed not to have waited for the event, in order to pornounce with certaintconcernignit. Such is the influence of custom, that conceals itself, and seems not to take place, merely because it is found in the highest degree."

You can't tell what is the result without relevant factor.

Hume

Hume's believe in a priori theory!

Hume don't believed in "a priori theory" where knowledge which is independent of observation. He believed in " a posteriori theory" which knowledge which is gained in virtue of observation.

he said," who will assert, that he can give the ultimate reason, why milk and bread is proper nourishment for a man, not for a lion or a tiger?"

Hume's idea on cause and effect!

"This propostion, that causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason, but by experience,"

Hume think that the cause and effect relationship can only be discovered by experience, without experience, then how would we know what might happen to the two things. I agree with him through, if i never saw someone playing basketball before. I would never know that if u shoot toward the board in a certain degree, then ball will go in the net.

IDEAS

why our ideas are not capable of infinity. pg 147

locke is this passage is explaining how our ideas have no real way of reaching infinity so to an extent we cant reach the truth by adding ideas upon ideas, because as he said if we have a white color and add a whiter color it will be whiter, and if we add the whitest color it will be even more whiter, but what other color is whiter then the whitest color??? so there is a flaw in search of the truth by adding to the truth so then can we reach the truth???

collective ideas

one idea.pg 232

throughout this passage Locke discusses that ideas are formed from adding on to older ideas and if this is how ideas come to be, who is to say that truth does not work the same way. if a slight truth is found say The book is heavy, why is the book heavy, because it has alot of pages, why does it have many pages because its full of information. why is it full of information because locke is in search for knowledge because he want to get to the truth. by doing this we can arrive at some truth and keep on adding it until we get to the truth of why the book is heavy.

(Appearance in the mind true or false)

Locke in here is trying to say that since we make our own truth we tend to judge, but he also says that if we doubt our ideas that are true or false , we always going to think that we are right . Our mind is tricky and lead us to believe that we are saying the truth even though is not . Locke believes that if our mind is mental or verbal, our ideas are not capable of being false. Locke has a different thought than Decartes. Locke says that since we make our own truths we might tend judge it wrong. Decartes says to his readers just to believe and trust their selfs not others. Seems to me that Locke belives too much in himself. What do you think?

Mode of Thinking !!!

(Hence it is probable that thinking is the action note essence of the soul!!!!!)Pg 159 What Locke is trying to say in here is that we believed that our mind is tired but even when we are sleeping our senses produce very vivid and sensible ideas. You could actually relate this with Decartes. I remember reading about his dreams . He did not understand why did they seem so real! I guess Locke made it clear for us that our mind is always working even when we are sleeping. Things that might look real are actually just dreams and things that are real we tend to put it as dreams!! I believe we all experience those kind of dreams.

Body and Mind Continues!!! pg 92

(Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet unless the motion continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat or idea of pain be produce in the mind , where in consist actual perception)pg 92 What Locke in trying to say here is that our bodies dont feel pain unless our brain instructs them to. Seems like he is tryng to say that our body wont follow , everything depends on what the mind says!!!

Body and Mind (when only the mind receives the impression)

"Whoever reflects the passes in his own what mind cannot make him have any notion of it) Changes that are made in the body if they are not capable of reaching the mind , watever changes will not work. If a person does not find within themselves than is worthless. Humans are capable of reaching beyond the expectations of other, but one of teh human mistakes is not believing in our self. We are not capable of working with our mind. The mind says something but you start to doubt yourself , that when everything becomes worthless!!

Truth!!! (not on the mind)

(Childrens and idiots have souls, mind with those impression upon them, they must unavoidable perceive them and necessary know and assent to these truths , which since they do not , it is evident that there are no such impressions)
In this passage Locke says that if the truth is to be said and if they baby and idiots have souls and minds , they must not be blind by false opinions. As we all know we get blind by false opinions instead of the truth. Seems like that typical human mistake. When we have the truth right in out faces we still dont see it or act as if it was never there. In Locke opinion the truth doesnt exist and our mind is ignorant...Do you agree with Locke?

Body and Mind

Locke seems to believe that men are capapble of having greater knowledge. If they put their mind and go for it. Locke and Decartes are too different philosophers they think too diferently. Decartes has been always confused on thought and his writting. Seems Like Locke knows and trust his own thought and that is why he belives in his writtings. Locke also seem ti believe its not good to show false thoughts to his readers , he tries to be as truthgul as he cant be. He has put his mind and thoughts together.