FUTURE OCCURENCES In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume demonstrates how there is no rational way to make any claims about future occurrences. According to his way of thinking, knowledge of matters of fact comes from previous experience. From building on this rationale, Hume goes on to prove how, as humans, we can only make inferences (as opposed to statements) on what will happen in the future, based on our experiences of the past. …showed first 75 words of 1005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1005 total…This is the human condition: we have no way of asserting what will happen in the future, only in what probably will. But in living ou! r daily lives, we are better to go by what has occurred in the past, in nature, despite Hume's philosophy that there is only a 50/50 chance. In order to function and carry on with our lives, we need to accept that there is a uniformity of nature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**