Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Hume, An Enquiry page 19
Hume says on page 19 that "Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect, or lead us into the knowledge of ultimate causes..." which is sort of funny to me. I study math for business and its filled with formulas and theory's having to do with predicting the future outcome of some figure if the underlying business does X amount in sales and it seems to me that Hume is contradicting all these years of mathematical development. I mean he is probably right considering the outcome of these formulas are never really exact, but then whats the use of going to the trouble of getting complicated when we can just wing it through the use of cause and effect?
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I think that it is definitely important to have at least a round about idea of how things are going to turn out. That is why people have come up with all of these mathematical formulas for things!
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