50 min

What Can we Know‪?‬ Hume

    • Courses

According to Hume, all the objects of human inquiry and knowledge can be divided into two kinds (and only two kinds). They are 'relations of idea' on the one hand, which are discoverable by reason independent of real existence in the universe, and 'matters of fact' on the other, which are discoverable by experience.

Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

According to Hume, all the objects of human inquiry and knowledge can be divided into two kinds (and only two kinds). They are 'relations of idea' on the one hand, which are discoverable by reason independent of real existence in the universe, and 'matters of fact' on the other, which are discoverable by experience.

Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Please contact for permissions.

50 min

More by La Trobe University

Diet and Nutrition
La Trobe University
Australian Aboriginal History
Professor Richard Broome
Gallipoli and the Great War
La Trobe University
Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War
Professor Chris Mackie and Dr Gillian Shepherd
Ancient Greece: City and Society
Dr Gillian Shepherd
The Philosophy of Descartes
La Trobe University