Friday, April 18, 2008
Cause and Effect - Hume
We learn from experience when we do certain things the same thing will come right after it. Hume calls it cause and effect. If you don't have the cause then the effect does not exist. We talked about this in class a little bit. When you snap your fingers you get a sound. But sometimes it doesn't make the same sound or a sound at all if you don't know how to do it. I think this theory is right to extent but not all the time. There is always a cause but there isn't always the same effect.
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as discussed in class, how do we know that the sound of when we snap our fingers is the effect of the cause? hume questions cause and effect alot in section 4. how are we sure that the effect is due to the cause if we never snapped our fingers? how can our mind perceive cause and effect? how sure are we that the sound is due to the snapping of the finger?
I agree, that's basically what Hume is saying though, he said that the cause that u do, might not come up with the same effect. The effect is due to by your experiece. He use the pool example to explain that. He said that if you never play pool before, you wouldn't know what happen to the pool if the white hit the ball, and even if you know, the ball might not go the same direction every time!
i agree with what you are saying when it comes to this topic.....it does have to do with experience
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