"If I see a billiard ball moving towards another, on a smooth table, I can easily conceive to stop upon contact." - Hume
This is the perfect example of you never know what could happen. If you are someone who has never played pool in their lives you have no idea that that one white ball could make all of the other balls move the way it is. To someone playing pool for the first time it is a complete mystery. Sometimes it is a complete mystery to figure out where the other balls go in such.
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This example has been talked about numerous times in class, and is a great example of human understanding needing experience to predict future events, like you said, if someone has never played pool they will never be able to predict what will happen
hume actually is saying that even if you never saw a pool table or pool game you would still know that one ball will transfer energy to another if they collide and cause the second to move. he is saying that you can figure this out even if you have never seen it because of the laws of nature and science and physics. newton had long before this discovered the laws of physics and it was already widely known that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
jimmy
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