Hume is trying to say when he thinks of mathematical sciences that he enjoys these kind of sciences because there is no telling you if your wrong or right.
"All the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, relations of ideas, and matters of fact. Of the first kind are the sciences of geometry, algebra, and arithmetic, and in short, every affirmation which is either intuitively or demonstratively certain. That the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the square of the two sides, is a proposition which expresses a relation between these figures. That three times five is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers"
he is saying well this is the way it is.... 15 is half of 30 and no one can tell you any different. It is just the way of human understanding.
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Like Descartes, Hume likes to know when things are definitely true. With math the answers to the problem never change. 2x2 will always be 4. We can't argue that it isn't.
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