About Hume
Hume's Fork
Impressions and Ideas
Custom
100
Hume practiced this branch of philosophy
What is epistemology
100
The concept that all ideas can be split into synthetic and analytic statements
What is Hume's Fork?
100
A copy or reflection of an impression
What is an idea?
100
The concept that dictates our belief in timeless conformity
What is custom?
200
Hume agrees with this epistemological school of thought
What is empiricist
200
A main philosopher that Hume worked off of
Who is John Locke?
200
For example, 2 + 2 = 4
What is a demonstrative/analytic statement?
200
Hume questioned the assumptions we make based on these ideas
What is perpetual cause and effect?
300
Hume's place of birth and death
What is Edinburgh, Scotland
300
Something that can be present to the mind
What is a perception?
300
A direct perception of the world
What is an impression?
300
Hume's conclusion about custom
What is the concept that custom is the guide to life, not reason?
400
One of Hume's texts
What is "A Treatise of Human Nature" "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"
400
A feeling that does not depend on our will, but is caused by habit
What is a belief?
400
Hume's conclusion about the relationship between impressions and ideas
What is the idea that every idea has a corresponding impression?
400
Descartes' argument relating to custom (similar to Hume's Billiard Ball Example)
What is the ABCD Example?
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