As Hume has once thought that “reality is the world we experiment”; this statement shows how Hume acquires his personal knowledge from real world experiment. He also thought that “truth is a knowledge of relations between ideas. Knowledge of the empirical world is limited.” Kant thought that “reality is the world of experience that we actively construct” and “we construct knowledge by applying the faculties of the mind to sense experience”. Kant on the other hand is disturbed from thinking that everything in science is fine by Hume’s argument. Kant concludes that “there is pure in a priori knowledge but are rather the pre-conditions for any possible experience.” This essay will explore and answer the question: Are there just two ways in which
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To him, a priori knowledge is universal. An example could be sour apples are delicious; this is because we are picking out the actual taste of the apple when we bite into it. But in Hume’s sense, it is clear to say that words are ideas. When we say the word dog, it stands for our own idea of what a dog is. The idea of a dog is copied from our own idea of impressions of dogs. To Hume, complex ideas are composed of simple ones. And the simple ideas can be tracked back to an impression from which they were copied or else they are meaningless. Hume’s idea is that the humankind knowledge falls into two categories or kinds. The first knowledge is relations of ideas which means all a priori knowledge and the second type of knowledge is matters of fact which is all empirical knowledge. We know that it is a relations of ideas when we can deny things without having to get ourselves involved in any contradictions. We found a matter of fact when we can imagine thing being false and there is no contradictory about the subject/ object. An example for these two kinds could be the bachelors. When we say all bachelors are unmarried is in the relations of ideas. This is because when we imagine a married bachelor, that doesn’t make sense. But we know that it doesn’t make sense because we know the meaning of what a bachelor is: single man. But what if we say bachelors are messy? We would say that not all of bachelors are messy… this is because not all bachelors are messy, some are extremely neat indeed and therefore, it is a matter of fact. Other examples could be all triangles have three sides, we cannot imagine or practice a triangle with less than or more than three sides, therefore, it is a relations of ideas. But what if we say all dogs have four legs, it is true that most of the dogs have four legs, but what if some dogs were born with less than 4 legs or
To him, a priori knowledge is universal. An example could be sour apples are delicious; this is because we are picking out the actual taste of the apple when we bite into it. But in Hume’s sense, it is clear to say that words are ideas. When we say the word dog, it stands for our own idea of what a dog is. The idea of a dog is copied from our own idea of impressions of dogs. To Hume, complex ideas are composed of simple ones. And the simple ideas can be tracked back to an impression from which they were copied or else they are meaningless. Hume’s idea is that the humankind knowledge falls into two categories or kinds. The first knowledge is relations of ideas which means all a priori knowledge and the second type of knowledge is matters of fact which is all empirical knowledge. We know that it is a relations of ideas when we can deny things without having to get ourselves involved in any contradictions. We found a matter of fact when we can imagine thing being false and there is no contradictory about the subject/ object. An example for these two kinds could be the bachelors. When we say all bachelors are unmarried is in the relations of ideas. This is because when we imagine a married bachelor, that doesn’t make sense. But we know that it doesn’t make sense because we know the meaning of what a bachelor is: single man. But what if we say bachelors are messy? We would say that not all of bachelors are messy… this is because not all bachelors are messy, some are extremely neat indeed and therefore, it is a matter of fact. Other examples could be all triangles have three sides, we cannot imagine or practice a triangle with less than or more than three sides, therefore, it is a relations of ideas. But what if we say all dogs have four legs, it is true that most of the dogs have four legs, but what if some dogs were born with less than 4 legs or