David Hume

Question 0

Ideas

Answer 0

Pale copies of impressions

Material for though and reflection

Question 1

Impressions

Answer 1

Vivid or lively sensations

Most direct and real

Question 2

Criteria for knowledge

Answer 2

No impression no idea
Denies we have any knowledge of material or mental substance(self)
Causality
Universal knowledge

Question 3

On material substance

Answer 3

We only have particular impression of qualities not an impression of underlying material substance.
Cannot see beneath representations I matter

Question 4

On the self

Answer 4

Can’t catch yourself without a perception

Only speak of what we experience by direct impressions

Question 5

On causality

Answer 5

1) contiguity- things occur together in space
2) priority- temporal succession
3) necessary connexion- sensible experience of necessity between cause and effect

Question 6

On universal ideas

Answer 6

When one says chair or bird one cannot grasp the idea without a particular image attached
Relies on custom and power to form an image.
No such things as white only particular thing that are white

Question 7

Hume conclusions regarding knowledge

Answer 7

All knowledge comes from experience and logical operations

No absolute knowledge of our world of experience

Question 8

Matters of fact (experience)

Answer 8

Informative ideas
Experience but are never certain
Ex-the sun will rise tomorrow

Question 9

Relations of ideas (logic)

Answer 9

Certain ideas yet do not depend on experience

Ex- sum of the angles of a triangle equals 180 degrees