Hume believes that events are related to a custom or a habit taken in by experience. We form the association of ideas which produces us to expect the effect. Whenever we experience the "cause," Hume states that we think back to that experience. This whole idea comes from Hume trying to figure out the necessary connection between cause and effect. Locke opposes this idea but Hume questions it.. voluntary motion. Doing some research on Hume on the web, I found that Hume will later on deny the fact of voluntary motion.
"if volition did always produce the intended movement, Hume argued, that would yield no notion of the connection between them."
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Im not sure if this is what Hume is talking about with the cause and effect...I think everything has and affect...because if it was for that one cause the next thing wouldnt occur...it maybe would occur but not in the same way as if there was that original cause....So him not being able to associate cause and effect..how can he understand life with why things happen...and not to forget the results of things happening
Hume says that matters of fact consist of relation between cause and effect. He gives the examples of the cue ball. And goes on to say that constant conjunction doesn't work for itself unless there is a necessary cause and effect.
Hmm.. Codi you said that in a good way. "Matters of relation between cause and effect" but I still do not know if I agree with that?? I don't know I still get some what confused on this. I do not think though that all facts have to have a cause and effect.
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