Where is that process of reasoning, which, from one instance, draws a conclusion, so different from that which it infers from a hundred instances, that are nowise different from that single one?

I cannot find, I cannot imagine any such reasoning.

#DavidHume
#AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding

If we still carry on and ask, 'What is the foundation of all conclusions from #experience?' this implies a new question, which may be of more difficult solution and explication.

#DavidHume

#AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding

When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of #fact? the proper answer seems to be, that they are founded on the relation of #cause and #effect.

#DavidHume
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#Hume's proposition that causes and effects are discoverable, not by #reason, but only by #experience, stems from his assertion that the #mind can never find the effect in the supposed cause as the effect is totally different from it.

#CauseAndEffect
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"To me, there appear to be only three principles of connexion among ideas, namely, #Resemblance, #Contiguity in time or place, and #Cause or Effect."

#DavidHume

#AnEnquiryConcerningHumanUnderstanding

"A view that pervades nearly all Hume’s philosophical writings is that both ancient and modern philosophers have been guilty of optimistic and exaggerated claims for the power of human reason."

Eric Steinberg's Intro for the Enquiry
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#DogmaticRationalism