Philosophy 2203E Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Solidity, Billiard Ball, David Hume
3 Oct 2016
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We are not capable of scientific knowledge, nor shall we ever be capable to discover general, instructive, unquestionable truths concerning them. Certainty & demonstration are things we must not, in these matters, pretend to. [ ]another cause of ignorance, of no less moment, is a want of a discoverable connection between those ideas we have. We are left only to observation and experiment which, how narrow and confined it is, how far from general knowledge we need not be told. ". Locke"s idea: the connection between primary qualities, as causes, & secondary qualities, as effects, is utterly mysterious. We do not understand, for example, how the mechanical arrangement of corpuscles in a banana gives rise to the color & taste of a banana. The things that, as far as our observation reaches, we constantly find to proceed regularly, we can conclude do act by a law set them; yet by a law that we know not.
