What is Hume's attack against Christianity - 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? - answer✔The mind is fallible, which means
that it can be used to make mistakes
How does Hume classify a wise man? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - answer✔Faith is not enough to navigate the world, need the five
senses/experience.
What is Hume's first view of the Torah? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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 - 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? - 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.
What is Hume's second claim about his Reason of Animals? - answer✔Animals, nor humans are
not guided by reason. Not logical to trust the uncertain process of reasoning and augmentation.
What is the concept of relations of ideas? - answer✔knowledge that requires abstract thought.
Mathematics- relationships between numbers. Creations of the human mind. You can image a
perfect triangle or circle in the real world, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in the real
world.
What happens if some thing exists or is true in our mind? - answer✔if some thing exists or is true
in our mind, it doesn't that it necessarily relates to something in the real world.
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