Tuesday, April 8, 2008

David Hume, An Enquiry page 18

"The mind can never possibly find the effect in the supposed cause, by the most accurate scrutiny and examination. For the effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently can never be discovered in it."

It seems as though no matter what you do or how hard you think you can never really know whats going to happen next. Experience and time seem to be the only elements to finding out what is going to happen and there is no way of knowing what is going to happen before it happens. Its a little twist for anyone who thinks to much. The more you think the more you can plan, but you wont necessarily know what will happen until it does. 

2 comments:

SHANESSA said...

I agree with this statement to a certain extent because I dont think that you can never know how something will turn out. If you see something a certain amount of times and it happens the same way everytime then you will have some idea of what is going to happen but at the same time the same result does not happen all the time. So it is kind of hard to say you know what will happen without absolute certainty. Like you said experience and time are the only things that will help to find out what will happen in the long run.

Rachel said...

I agree here as well. Experience can lead you to a strong assumption of what will take place but until the event acutally happens then one cannot know of certain what the outcome will be