...mind with the same facility and distinctness, as if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun u'ill not rise to-morrow 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,...

...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,...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,...

...To clarify this proposition, Hume famously offers the following famous example: "That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition,...vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood" (Enquiries, 25-26). Whereas logical claims are by definition true, inferences about cause and effect...

...matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction. . . . That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition...more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise.'1 Hume does not mean that it is untrue to say that the sun will rise tomorrow: he means that...

....... That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more 173 contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise....vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. The bread, which I formerly ate, nourished me . . . hut does it follow that other bread must also nourish...

...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,...should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsch<xid. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly...

...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,...will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to dem[1] Extracted from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. LA Selby-Bigge, Oxford: Clarendon...

...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,...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,...

...faciliry and distinctness, äs if ever so conformable to reality. That the sun will not rise to-momtv is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...affirmation, that it will rise. We should in vain, thereforc, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction,...

...Maclntyre, Dependent Rational Animals (London: Duckworth, 1999), pp. 1-2 and 7. 50 ' That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more a contradiction, than the affirmation that it will rise.' David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding...