“our reason, unassisted by experience, can never draw any inference concerning real existence and matter of fact.”
Hume uses the example of bread nourishing our bodies. By looking at the bread we do not know that it can provide us with nutrients, or that it is even healthy for us at all, unless we are told it is and provided with actual evidence.
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Yeah i agree here, basically the bread example is saying you don't know until you have experience, there are some things that we know without experience, like jumping off a cliff will kill us, but most of the time we need experience in life to be able to predict
hume says how could i know unless i experienced. hume is pretty true to the you get knowledge from experience claim.
I also agree. Hume talks a lot about experiencing things for yourself to know the truth. I think Hume has the right idea.
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