Hume - Complete

Question 1

Is Hume an empiricisit?

Answer 1

Yes, Hume is an empiricist.

Question 2

What is an empiricist?

Answer 2

An empiricist is a theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses.

Question 3

What are Humes four conclusions?

Answer 3

1. No necessary connections are to be found in experience.
2. All contingent,
   - hence changeable,
   - hence unpredictable.
3. cannot be more than in terms of provability and meaning - artefacts of custom and habit.
4. Hence, science is undermined insofar as it is thought to be based on discovering necessary connections in experience.

Question 4

What is Humes main conclusion?

Answer 4

“All events are entirely loose and separate.”

Question 5

What is Kant’s reply to Hume?

Answer 5

Our minds are not blank receptors, but an active processor of sensory inputs. We process these inputs in terms of the mind’s own inherent structure.