Part one of term paper
Eric Tarr 1. Hume says, “If we would satisfy ourselves, therefore, concerning the nature of that evidence, which assures us to matters of fact, we must enquire how we arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect.” Hume then makes the claim that; “knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori.” Th ...

Part two of term paper
... which appear to the senses. Hume writes, “nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments a priori.” Only through experiences with gunpowder and a loadstone would you be able to know the cause, which produced it, or the effects, which will arise for it. Hume writes, “When we reason a priori, and consider merely any object or cause, as it appears to the mind, independent of all observations, it never could ...