2. Hume states that habit is the great guide to human life because custom allows us to use experience to navigate our world. He makes this assertion because it follows a criticism of our understanding of cause and effect as previous philosophers speculated. Hume makes the point that we do not actually understand cause and effect, only the relation of repetition shared between two things. We don't actually see the change that happens between one event to the next, and understanding the probability between two events does not represent common sense or reasoning as other believed. Instead he states that they are all habits, created by experiences that lead to expectation; expectations do not represent human reasoning. Custom and habit become
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When looking at two pool balls hitting each other, Hume becomes skeptical of of their existence because he cannot understand the causation between them fully. Berkeley believed that initially hume believed that those pool balls are material things and really hitting each other, leading Hume to become skeptical. Hume could not directly understand the connection between the idea of the pool balls and the objects associated with the idea. Berkeley would see Hume's skepticism from the pool balls association and causation as looking for a connection that doesn't need to exist as anything other than his own perception of what happening doesn't matter as it’s through god we perceive. Hume would still be skeptical of Berkeley's assertion that because reality exists beyond his perceptions when his eyes are closed that another being must be perceiving it meanwhile. Hume would argue why must God fill into the void of the other perceiver, as God is a construct of human imagination. Hume would see God as dependent to our perceptions as well in this theory. Hume also doesn't think his skepticism as something terrible as Berkeley would seem to think of is. Hume thought our habits allowed us to navigate our world and live happy skeptical
When looking at two pool balls hitting each other, Hume becomes skeptical of of their existence because he cannot understand the causation between them fully. Berkeley believed that initially hume believed that those pool balls are material things and really hitting each other, leading Hume to become skeptical. Hume could not directly understand the connection between the idea of the pool balls and the objects associated with the idea. Berkeley would see Hume's skepticism from the pool balls association and causation as looking for a connection that doesn't need to exist as anything other than his own perception of what happening doesn't matter as it’s through god we perceive. Hume would still be skeptical of Berkeley's assertion that because reality exists beyond his perceptions when his eyes are closed that another being must be perceiving it meanwhile. Hume would argue why must God fill into the void of the other perceiver, as God is a construct of human imagination. Hume would see God as dependent to our perceptions as well in this theory. Hume also doesn't think his skepticism as something terrible as Berkeley would seem to think of is. Hume thought our habits allowed us to navigate our world and live happy skeptical