"For as the faculties of the mind are supposed to be naturally alike in every individual; otherwise nothing could be more fruitless than to reason or dispute together; it were impossible, if men affix the same ideas to their terms, that they could so long form different opinions of the same ideas to their terms, that they could so long form different opinions of the same subject; especially when they communicate their views, and each party turn themselves on all sides, in search of arguments, which may give them the victory over their antagonists." Hume p.53
I am pretty sure that what Hume is trying to say in this part is that in a perfect world people would not argue about anything because they would be like minded. But in this world that is not the case. People are not like minded and argue about everything. Most of the time you can find people who think they are like minded but you can always find at least one subject that they do not agree on.
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I think that he might also be saying that based on the fact that no minds think exactly alike may bring substance to the world as well in order to dispute or reasom
I agree also. i don't believe in people being like minded. there's got to be something that they would disagree on. How would the world be if no one argued?
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