Hume says causes don't resemble the fact.
ex- The game of pool: How can you tell when the balls hit eachother what is going to happen?!
You will not know what the balls will actually do until you have experienced them hitting eachother atleast once.
Before you have experienced the outcome of the observation - you cannot rule out any of the concievable outcome. All info. about cause and effect is a posteriority which is derived from the observation.
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I feel that the whole pool ball example is very obvious. As Codi stated, you will never know what will happen until you actually experienced it before. I feel that this is true for everything. A person will never know the outcome of something until they have seen it/experienced it before. Thinking further into this example, lets say a person experienced the game of pool and now knows the outcome of what will happen when two balls hit each other. Now when that person experiences pool again, they know the balls will make contact but they do not know exactly where the balls will end up.
yeahh, that's exactly the way that i saw the example.
I feel that you will never know the outcome of things even if you did experiece it...so im disagreeing...ex:pool game...even though you experienced it many of times you will not know the outcome of whats going to happen when the balls hit eachother....Everytime those balls are hit something different is going to occur...
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