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HUME VS. LOCKE
Lauren Parramore
Parramore, Kari A
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David Hume was a philosopher born in Edinburgh Scotland. He observes that while we
may perceive two events as happening because of one another, there is no way for us to know the
real nature of their connection. Because of this observation, Hume argues against the idea of
cause and effect. Whereas we often assume that one thing causes another, Hume points out it is
just as possible that one thing does not cause the other. He claims that cause and effect is a habit
of association, that when we repeatedly observe one event following another our assumption is
that this is happening because of something else. In the reading, it states that "the Western
Philosophers and scientists traditionally believed that to know something fully one must know
the cause upon which it necessarily depends." But Hume seems to always find something wrong
with that, and he goes against what they say. He argues that it is impossible. Hume realizes that
for two to have a relationship with one another, it may be based on the experience of the work at
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