PHL 708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Empirical Evidence
12 Jan 2017
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Enquiry 30, how our beliefs come about in a nutshell. The belief that a causes b is formed when. We have repeated experience of an a followed by a b (constant conjunction) The mind based on this experience, forms a disposition to call up the idea of a b whenever it is presented, in experience, with an a (custom) The disposition is activated on the occasion of experiencing a. Once you have been experienced of the feeling of being cold when you see snow, your mind has the tendency of experiences cold when you see snow. Recall the idea of causal relation is the idea of necessary connection. A) that a is happening and b is happening. B) that given a, b cannot fail to occur. Hume calls (b) necessary connexion or power . But hume argues that the word necessary connexion does not express an idea of necessary connexion. Because there is no idea of necessary connexion.
