Deck 34: David Hume: Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding

Question 1

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Hume asserts that causes and effects are discoverable not by reason but by experience.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Hume argues that all reasonings are of two kinds-demonstrative reasoning and reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Hume says that custom can be no guide of human life.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Science has proved that the future will resemble the past.

Question 5

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Hume proves the impossibility of scientific progress.

Question 6

Alison Ainley is head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Chelmsford, United Kingdom. Her areas of research include feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and contemporary European philosophy. Ainley defines feminist philosophy and discusses the major issues with which feminist philosophers have grappled.
-Hobbes uses the term Leviathan to refer to democratic government.