Hume divided human knowledge into two categories and insisted that every justifiable belief must meet the standards of one or the other
This idea has come to be known as "Hume's fork" (i.e. "fork in the road"). What are these two categories and why are they important to understanding Hume's philosophy?
- Relation of Ideas: The principles of mathematics and logic as well as simple tautologies; discoverable by reason, without reference to experience, and do not permit logical contradictions.
- Matters of Fact: Can be confirmed (or disconfirmed) by appeal to our experience. Necessarily involve sense experience. Permit logical contradictions
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a. true b. false
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Rosenstand claims that businesspeople are, by definition, amoral. 2. A pacifist believes that there is no excuse for using violence except to defend our loved ones. 3. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., were both advocates of a nonviolent, passive resistance policy. 4. Steven Nathanson argues that patriotism is as discriminatory as racism and sexism. 5. Steven Nathanson argues in favor of moderate patriotism.
Plato often made the characters of his dialogues examples of the theories they were expressing. This was designed to demonstrate his belief that:
A. there is no real difference between appearance and reality. B. life itself is a form of art. C. the order of the universe is reflected in the order of the soul. D. Both A and B E. All of the above