Interesting question. Kant's biggest mistake as a philosopher was taking Hume seriously. By attempting to refute Hume and doing a poor job of it, Kant...
No. simple causation is directly observed. In the case of simple causes, they exist in the form of physical necessity which we can understand, predict...
Your description of Hume's view is correct. This is a frontal attack on Newton and his Law of Cause and Effect. And, of course, Newton is right and Hu...
No. I'm not saying anything close to that. I would be willing to say that Newtonian physics are a huge improvement over Cartesian physics and cosmolog...
You asked for some references. I will give you a few quotes. The billiard ball illustration was actually one he returned to several times. In the Trea...
I say he is difficult to categorize, not in the sense that it is difficult for me, but in the sense that different philosophers put him in different c...
Can you provide a quote where Hume says that? Since Hume was a skeptical materialist (when he wasn't being a skeptical idealist) I very much doubt tha...
I know that is what Hume thinks. That's why he is a bad philosopher. It is impossible for a battleship to behave contrary to the law of floatation. Ho...
The issue here isn't that I'm claiming that every battleship will always float, but that we know how to make battleships float. Unerringly. We know. I...
No. It isn't that "battleships will float" as if battleships suddenly appear out of the blue, but we know how to make battleships float because we dis...
I'm not missing the point at all. My second paper contra Hume will discuss in detail the fact we can observe cause and effect and that we can know cau...
I will be happy to give you some things to read. First, Hume is difficult to interpret which makes him difficult to categorize. This is due in part to...
The defense of Hume in IEP is accurate to a point. However, it fails to consider the fact of physical necessity shown by natural philosophers Galileo,...
Because of physical necessity. We understand the temperature characteristics of snow and of snowballs. We understand that the temperature at the equat...
I don't think Hume said anything about immutability in his theory of self. This is not Hume's theory of substance. Notice that Hume's name does NOT ap...
Yes, the unified first person is inescapably contradictory to the bundle theory. Hume saw the contradiction. I'm wondering why you don't? I don't thin...
Perhaps I used the wrong phrase here. I should have said that "if perceptions arise in our minds from unknown causes." Yes, I understand there are peo...
Yes. When I first read the question my eye skipped over the words "of the self" and so I answered based purely on Hume's bundle theory of objects. Whe...
I thought I explained it clearly enough. I must have assumed you had some background information that I shouldn't have assumed. Let me back up and tak...
I have already claimed here the ability to prove the existence of an external world. If true, then Hume's bundle theory is demonstrably false. It is d...
Normally, I am as well. I've been struck by the complete failure of the Treatise Book 1 to add anything to our store of philosophical knowledge. Hume'...
I cannot agree that existence is absurd. I believe the empirical evidence clearly shows that life has purpose and meaning. I can't go into the reasons...
No, that isn't conceivable. We know that solid objects cannot pass through solid objects without breaking them. In the old days, people looked to phil...
This is already done. Within philosophy of science we have philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, etc. So you could call it neurophilosophy or ...
That isn't an answer. Can you think of anything at all in the Treatise Book 1 that advanced our philosophical knowledge, being original, true and bene...
My demonstration of an external world is not deductive. You are correct that bricks will not always break windows. In some cases, the window may be ma...
I agree. The goal of publishing my proof is not to stir the masses to get a job or change their life. My goal is to change the way philosophers think ...
No, philosophers were unable to refute Hume's claim that the external world cannot be demonstrated. Thomas Reid tried a "common sense" approach. Kant ...
I would say that nobody needed a proof before Hume asked for one. Once people were stumped, the proof became necessary which is why I'm publishing one...
You are absolutely correct that we sometimes find a more general or deeper theory that fits the data better. One example of this was Einstein's theory...
Regarding Dallas Willard's description of reality, you write: Yes, I very much like Dallas Willard. I even had the pleasure of meeting him once. To fi...
This is a quote from an earlier comment you made. The Treatise Book 1 explains Hume's doubt of the external and his shock the porter was able to rise ...
Yes, this is the essence of Pyrrhonism - the suspension of judgment. But this suspension of judgment is entirely irrational. Yes, this is correct. Hum...
Yes, it did freak out a bunch of philosophers and no one knew how to refute him. But Hume's idea was still completely irrational. He did not add to ou...
I did not claim that Hume was rejecting external objects. I'm saying the Treatise Book 1 lays out Hume's argument as to why we do not have a proof of ...
If your only exposure to Hume is his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, I can see why you might think that. Hume does not even hint at his doubt ...
Yes. Potential energy is the energy an object holds relative to other objects. Think of a boulder perched on the side of a cliff above a highway. Some...
This is a good and fair question. In general terms, the goodness of ideas is found in their truthfulness and their benefit. Truth is that which is in ...
I have read Hume's first Enquiry. Have you read his Treatise? Hume says that his philosophy is the same in both books, I believe this to be mainly acc...
But you can! Kinetic energy is motion. To measure or estimate the kinetic energy, you multiply mass times velocity. At the same speed, the larger the ...
Kinetic energy looks like an object moving, such as an object falling or a ball rolling down an incline plane. If you had read of Galileo's experiment...
If anyone knows any Hume followers, please invite them to this thread. If anyone can show me something both good and original in Hume's Treatise Book ...
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