Saturday, October 13, 2007
An Alternate Enquiry to Humes
"All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact.", a statement made by Hume that I do not believe to be true despite his evidence. My alternate enquiry would be that "human reason and inquiry is limitless and cannot be placed into only two categories." Although in our society today it seems that we either base our reason on scientific matters or religious beliefs due to philosophy and understanding our reasoning has become much more complicated than Hume makes it out be. The dictionary defines reason as: 1. To think or argue in a logical manner, 2. To form conclusions, judgements, or inferences from facts or premises, 3.to urge reasons which should determine belief or action. These definitions are like rules for reason. If we have learned anything from Descartes it is that our motives and ways for reasoning are taught to us from birth. In order to find an answer we may wish to rid ourselves of these notions and start with nothing. Therefore, there is a grey area with reasoning that Hume does not address.
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