Philosophy 1130F/G : Hume Handout.pdf
15 Apr 2012
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Main aspects of hume"s system: the origins of ideas, impressions, thoughts, hume"s fork, relations of ideas, matters of fact, the relation between cause and effect, the problem with induction. Hume divides the perceptions of the mind into two mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive classes, namely, thoughts or ideas and impressions. Where do they come from: for hume, simple ideas are faint copies of impressions, whereas complex ideas are ensembles or assemblages of simple ideas. Is every idea either simple or complex: hume claims that all objects of human reason or inquiry (all propositions) fall into one of two classes: relations of ideas and matters of fact (this division is called hume"s fork). Explain the difference between a priori and a posteriori. Are their contradictories possible or conceivable: hume claims that we never come to know cause-effect relationships a priori but always a posteriori, i. e. , from experience.
