PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Billiard Ball
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Hume"s an enquiry into human understanding section 7 critical summary. In the seventh section of hume"s enquiry into human understanding, titled of the idea of necessary connection , hume critically examines two important questions divided into two parts. In the first part, he investigates the reasons why we are unable to experience an impression of necessary connection. He does this in order to identify the power and energy behind effects that follow from causes. While in the second part, he focuses on expressing the different definitions for the term cause with the purpose to solve the problem of explaining where our initial impression of cause comes from. By outlining this, he ultimately concludes that the idea of necessary connection is too complex to be rationalized by us. Hume begins the seventh section by claiming that all ideas are derived from an initial simple impression a vivid perception of the senses that is innate and clearly defined.
