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David Hume

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Are There Relationships of Ideas?

Hu makes a distinction between matters of fact and relations of ideas. He thinks that any alleged knowledge of god, trees or whatever, has to come through experience. So you can only reason concerning ideas once you've got the ideas themselves. And again, because humes and empiricis those are not going tobe innate ideas. You have to have had some experience, if i don't know, counting things in order to have the ideas.

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