...every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than that it will rise. Here we are dealing not with certain, self-evident knowledge, but with probability....

...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature of that evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact,...

...25-26, 163-164, typified by this extract from the first of the Enquiry passages: Thai the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. 2. Cleanthes' follow-up move, denying "meaning" to any talk of "necessary existence", is modelled on...

...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...may, therefore, be a subject worthy of curiosity, to enquire what is the nature ofthat evidence which assures us of any real existence and matter of fact,...

...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively 14. For instance, Contrast or Contrariety is also a connexion among Ideas: But it may, perhaps, be...

...it is theoretically possible that it will explode tonight and never "rise" again. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood,47 as we reasonably could do in the case of 2 + 3 = 9. So, matters of fact have to do with...

...n) (if (zero? n) 0 (+ n (unsafe-triangle (- n 1))))) 3.4.4. Mathematical Induction That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction than the affirmation, that it will rise. — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding A scientist verifies a theory by conducting...

...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise... It may, therefore, be subject worthy of curiosity, to inquire what is the nature of that evidence which...

...ease and "distinctness as if ever so conformable to reality." 81 For example, Hume says: monstratively false, it would imply a contradiction and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind. 84 Before I show more precisely how Hume uses this propositional distinction to subordinate the quadrivium...

...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood." In other words, Hume rejects the theoretical possibility of knowing a (synthetic) rule, which has implications...