"Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors." Hume p. 73
I think what Hume is trying to say here is that just because a person may have experience in one situation they do not know everything. Situations can pan out differently every time depending on all of the factors. If one factor is different than the others then the outcome could be very different than what was previously experienced. Hume says experience is good but does not always help.
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I agree with you. You may be experienced in something, but it doesn't mean you know everything about it. Situations can happen differently and even though you have experience in it, it doesn't mean you'll know exactly what to do.
I agree here too. I mean if one factor is even the slightest bit different in some way shape or form it may or may not for that matter have the same outcome. So this brings me back to the whole point of a miracle. You don't know why it happened or how but the fact that it happened is apparent. There is no way to explain it.
I agree with your statement as well. I think that through experince you have more knowledge about a certain situation but that does not mean you know everything about it and everything that will happen. As you said factors in certain situations vary depending on your surroundings and the atmosphere so to say that you will know everything due to your one encounter is false.
haha i think everyone posted on Hume's miracles argument, and i also did, i agree with Hume that miracles are not possible, there is just too many ways to prove why a so-called "miracle" happened to have it be some phenomenon
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