Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Experiences

Past experiences: What happens when you cannot reason with your past experience? What if your past experiences do not have the answers for the present or the future? How about those people who don't have acknowledgment of their past experiences? What happens then? Hume says that those who do not have prior experience are not going to understand the process of cause and effect. In this section Hume states that our reasoning of experiences is derived from custom not understanding.

I think that many people learn from their past experiences but then there are people who do not. You only learn by experiencing from past experiences. I agree when hume says that for the people who not have prior experiences are not going to quite understand the process of cause and effect. I agree with Hume thinking that there aren't answers for the present or the future. You just learn and observe from your past experience, and based on that most people change as a person, and others do not, but there are not given answers to how your experiences in the future will be.

1 comment:

Isabella said...

I believe that people do learn from past experiences. If you did something wrong in the past, you learned from your mistake and with that experience you don't go through it again.