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1. "Of Scepticism with Regard to the Senses"

1. What two questions are commonly confounded together? (208)

2. Why can't the senses show us the continued existence of objects? (209)

3. What gives us an "assurance of the continued and distinct existence of body." (211)

4. What four things are requisite in order to justify the system in which we believe objects have continued existence? (213)

5. Why do we attribute sameness to every succession of related objects? (215)1

6. What "produces the fiction of a continued existence"? (217) What does Hume mean by that?

7. Why does Hume give the example of pressing his finger to his eye? (218)

8. What philosophical system is the "monstrous offspring of two principles"? (220)

9. What is Hume's main point in this first reading? Do you agree?

2. "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"

10. Describe the two "classes or species" that we can divide all perceptions of the mind.(223)

11. What two arguments prove that all our ideas come from our impressions (senses)?(223)

12. Explain Hume's "relations of ideas" and "matters of fact". (225)

13. What is Hume arguing when he talks about billiard balls? (227)

14. All reasoning can be divided into what two kinds? (229)

15. "It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future." (230) What does Hume mean here?

16. Why does Hume talk of "Custom or Habit"? (232)

17. In Section VI, Hume talks about probability, and discusses how we decide certain events will occur. Here he is providing reason to be skeptical of all perceptions, including laws of nature. (237-38) Do you agree with him?

18. Conclusion: Did Hume convince you that we can't have knowledge of cause and effect(or, as you are welcome to say, did you not understand his argument)?