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    Hume on Personal Identity

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    Hume ’s view of what constitutes personal identity rests heavily upon his preceding theories concerning the nature of ideas and causation. The most important preceding ideas to take into account are the rejection of causality and necessary connection and his strict empiric stance on the basis of knowledge and the only two types of perception being ideas that are reliant on initial impressions. There will clearly be difficulty in defining and explaining ’the self ’ when both the notions of causality

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    Hume Cause And Effect

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    Thereupon‚ Hume made the suggestion that we as humans have the ability to possess knowledge of the “matters of fact” concerning objects that we have never seen or experienced before through a process which we have known as “cause and effect”. My knowledge that my friend is in France might have been caused by a letter to that effect‚ and my knowledge that the sun will rise tomorrow is inferred from past experience‚ which tells me that the sun has risen every day in the past.Hume then asks how we know

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    Humes View on Miracles

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    Explain Hume’s views on miracles. Hume believed we establish cause and effect relationships based on our experience of this world which leads us to make predictions about what will happen in similar cases in the future. To Hume a miracle is a transgression of the laws of nature caused by God or by some form of invisible agent. He uses a priori reasoning supporting this with a number of sub-arguments designed to discredit testimonies regarding miracles. He argued that miracles cannot exist

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    Real Learning Hume

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    For throughout the centuries‚ scholars have addressed whether information exists and on the off chance that we know anything at all thinkers characterize learning as a conviction which is in concurrence with the actualities we can know are those which are testable and that learning must be gathered by a solid means‚ for example‚ science. Something else‚ our "insight" is simply conviction. While it appeared glaringly evident to me that the wellspring of learning was nature or the universe‚ I have

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    Hume Liberty and Necessity

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    Necessity”‚ Hume wants to discuss what liberty and necessity mean and whether or not they can be compatible with each other. This is all really a discussion of Hume’s view of free will and determinism‚ and how they can be easily reconciled through compatibilism where for example both liberty and necessity are required for morality. He starts off by considering the idea of necessity and defines it as‚ “the constant conjunction of similar objects‚ and the consequent inference from one to another” (Hume 150)

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    Hume and Matters of Fact

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    According to Hume‚ there are two types of beliefs‚ relations of ideas and matters of facts. Relations of ideas are indisputable. Such as a widow is a woman whose husband died. Such thoughts are usually definitions. Since it is impossible for a Widow to be anything other then the definition‚ these ideas are indisputable. Matters of facts claim that if the opposite is imaginable‚ then it is possible. Matters of fact are debatable‚ such as the belief in a God or that the world will end. While it is

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    Descartes‚ Hume and Skepticism Descartes is responsible for the skepticism that has been labeled Cartesian doubt. Hume critiques this skepticism in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. After his discussion of Cartesian doubt‚ he offers a different type of skepticism that he considers as being more effective philosophically. Is Hume right in his characterization of Cartesian doubt and is the skepticism he offers better? Descartes introduced the idea of universal doubt to philosophy. If

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    Professor Mandik Analyzation of Hume Miracles In reading the Enquiry‚ we have to consider on how Hume’s position is on human understanding and how knowledge is obtained will provide a distinct relationship. We know that he believes that humans gain this knowledge through our senses. Hume has provided two phrases on knowledge and how they are provided. He had stated that the experience that we gain is known as “Matters of Fact” and “Relations of Ideas”. Hume is telling us that the “matters of

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    Descartes vs Hume

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    Locke’s ideas. Hume names the basic contents of the mind as “perceptions‚” as what Locke described as “whatsoever the mind perceives in itself‚ or is the immediate object of perception‚ thought or understanding.” Hume divides perceptions into impressions and ideas. The difference between the two are marked by a difference of forcefulness and vivacity‚ so that impressions relate roughly to “feeling” as ideas relate to “thinking.” “Feeling” here should be understood broadly‚ and Hume divides impressions

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    hume rothery rules

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    Metals and alloys. Hume-Rothery rules. 1. Three types of metals. 2. Alloys. Hume-Rothery rules. 3. Electrical resistance of metallic alloys. 4. Applications of metallic alloys. 5. Steels. Super alloys. 6. Electromigration in thin wires. Three types of metals Metals share common features that define them as a separate class of materials: • Good thermal and electrical conductors (Why?). • Electrical resistance increases with temperature (Why?). • Specific heat grows linearly with temperature

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