Sunday, April 27, 2008
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.
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i agree with hume on this concept. in life chances are probabilities, we have to weigh out the facts in order to have an outcome, we cannot depend on past experiences for future or present references, past experiences is only a guide, probabilities are more common when reasoning matters of fact.
i also agree with Hume that there is a better chance of life if we believe in probabilities.
Yes i agree with the two of you but than again we sometimes cant base it on probabilities because it doesnt always work!!
Hmmm i dunno... I think what Hume is trying to say when he says that because of human ignorance of the causes of an event it influences the understanding i think he means like how people don't know why or how something happened to they assume it is god or a miracle or even luck. This is because humans believe if something happens, there must have been something that caused it. However if one can not find the cause, then often they would simply attempt to explain it away as a miracle.
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