Hume UPDATED Actual Questions and
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What is Hume's attack against Christianity - CORRECT ANSWER- Hume believes that
the bread and wine ritual of Transubstantiation is weaker that if one used the five senses
What is it important to remember about the mind? - CORRECT ANSWER- The m...
Hume UPDATED Actual Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is Hume's attack against Christianity - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hume believes that
the bread and wine ritual of Transubstantiation is weaker that if one used the five senses
What is it important to remember about the mind? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The mind is
fallible, which means that it can be used to make mistakes
How does Hume classify a wise man? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Belief to evidence-
weighs opposite experiments- cautiously choose the side which is supported by the greater
number of experiment, the side with the majority vote. Proceed with doubt and hesitation
since the mind is fallible
What are the three probabilities of someone else's story? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔They
are deceived- which means that they were tricked. The event really happened. Or the person
is trying to deceive me.
What is Hume's input on miracles? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hume doesn't flat out reject
miracles when he hears them, but he is very skeptical since the mind is fallible. This
undermines his epidemiological truth and mindset.
Where does Hume think about the people who tell stories about miracles? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Hume thinks that the miracle stories are coming from uneducated people
where their reputation is questionable, with alternative motives, and can happen in regions
where you can't verify or falsify them.
What does Hume call a miracle story of a sick man who becomes healthy? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Did not become healthy because of a prayer or miracle, but just an Anonomy,
which is not a miracle, but something that is very rare or lucky.
What is a saying that Hume says? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔That what we have found to
be usual is always more probably. If something is more probable, you have to incline yourself
more.
, What does Hume view a miracle? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔somehow related to divine
cause and effect. God or spirit involved in causal way. Thinks that this is a form of easy
philosophy since once it is a considered a miracle, it is done, can't analyze it, that is the only
conclusion. Doesn't mean that miracles can't happen, you just need to proceed with caution.
How does Hume view faith? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Faith is not enough to navigate the
world, need the five senses/experience.
What is Hume's first view of the Torah? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Instead of assuming it
was written by God, Hume thinks that it was written by ignorant people who had no witness
of the events, didn't experience the events themselves.
What is Hume's second view of the Torah? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hume believes that
the Torah is the Jewish people's miraculous telling of the history that was passed down as
moral tradition from generation to generation. He is attacking Judaism and Christianity.
Why is Hume's argument against the Torah weak? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hume's
argument against the Torah is weak since he engages in name calling, abusive acts.
Why was Hume not hired as a teacher? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Hume wasn't hired as a
teacher since he was an atheist. He is a hard core empiricist, who believes in epistemology-
physical experience and through the five senses
What has Hume said? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔If you do believe in miracle, you have
subverted any logic or rationality or reason since those can't be applied if you believe in
miracles.
scienticism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔through the empirical five senses world, the only
way to arrive at a truth
What is Hume's first claim about his Reason of Animals? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Similarly to humans, animals learn many things from experience. They will continue to
do the things that gives them pleasure and will stop doing what causes them pain. Young
animals will have to learn the hard way for what to do and what not to do.
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